Plane lands $4M for an open source project management platform for managing "issues, sprints, and product roadmaps with peace of mind."
  • Black616Angel@feddit.de
    19·
    1 year ago

    How are projects like this created?

    This github repo is 6 months old, they already have 18+k stars and over 800 forks.

    This looks like some overfunded pseudo-FOSS shit. Make the bare minimum open source and sell the rest to enterprises.

    Why not take the money and really fund an existing project like kanboard or redmine?

    I mean ffs kanboard is at least 10 years old and has less than 8k stars on github.

      • Black616Angel@feddit.de
        7·
        1 year ago

        I am on the phone too, but loaded it onto my server. It’s currently running. We’ll see.

        Edit: So its legit? Wow…

        Building trust report...ok

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      • Black616Angel@feddit.de
        3·
        1 year ago

        With $4M you could round the edges and then some.

        I think that open source people should also be able to recognize that always sponsoring a new project is not the open source way.
        They could have given established software a facelift and added a lot more features and this would have been better for the open source world than what they did.

        I mean it’s not wrong what they did. They just shouldn’t get as much praise for making it open source.
        Imagine everyone creating their own versioning system because they don’t like githubs frontend.

        • ShustOne@lemmy.one
          3·
          1 year ago

          I think we’re thinking about it wrong. These aren’t open source people looking to contribute to projects. These are product creators looking to reach the open source community. It’s not the same mindset.

          • Black616Angel@feddit.de
            1·
            1 year ago

            Oh, I do know that. But lots of folks even here don’t and that is my problem with all that.

            The FOSS community shouldn’t praise them or companies like them simply for open sourcing the MVP of a new product.