On Oct 6, 2017, at 4:37 PM, Paul Hemans paul_hemans@laberg.com.au wrote:
Being open source guarantees that it can be forked and that we don't end up in the dead end that VFP became. But there are other options for strongly typed JS available. It is just that being associated with MS means that it has stronger support, whereas other open source projects can simply dry up.
That certainly helps, but what is more important is having the copyright to the code owned by an independent foundation.
Python is owned by the Python Software Foundation. OpenStack is owned by the OpenStack Foundation. Kubernetes is owned by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
What that means is that the code is not for sale. No corporation can buy the code and bury it, as Microsoft did with FoxPro.
-- Ed Leafe
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