But even if they decided to stop it someone could pick up the code and go on. With VFP we were simply stuffed. 'Open source' means the source is available.
BTW: How did you figure out that the top 10 were from MS, 1 has a gmail account and another seems to be from facebook.
On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 8:01 PM, Thierry Nivelet tnivelet@foxincloud.com wrote:
The top 10 contributers being from MS (https://github.com/Microsoft/ TypeScript/graphs/contributors), if they decide to stop the project, no one will be able to continue. More a marketing trick than real 'open source'. To me, 'open source' means that many devs from various horizon is able to take over the project and even the lead.
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Le 06/10/2017 à 23:37, Paul Hemans a écrit :
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.
On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Thierry Nivelet tnivelet@foxincloud.com wrote:
developed and promoted by Microsoft, and widely considered as part of the
MS ecosystem even if it's technically open source.
perceptions weigh more than facts, I can testify.
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Le 06/10/2017 à 16:55, Alan Bourke a écrit :
On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, at 03:14 PM, Thierry Nivelet wrote:
Typescript is Microsoft; It's also open source, and only one of a range of similar tools.
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