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Chris Aniszczyk
@cra.dev

"Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community" www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04... github.com/cncf/toc/iss...

cncf.ioProtecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the communityWhen a company contributes a project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), it’s not just sharing code—it’s making a commitment to the open source community. It’s a pledge to uphold open…

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Marcus Noble
@averagemarcus.bsky.social

This reminds me (a little) about the issue last year with Linkerd being maintained by a single vendor and the drama that came around that. Was there any learning outcome / changes from that to help avoid vendors getting a stronghold on a project like that?

William Morgan
@williammorgan.me

Very different situation. Linkerd is fully open source and has been since its inception. We’ve played by the CNCF rules. If anyone wants to reduce someone else’s “stronghold” on Linkerd they just need to step up and get involved. I will never apologize for paying maintainers 💪

Chris Aniszczyk
@cra.dev

linkerd still followed the IP rules of the foundation and Apache 2.0 open source license... I'm happy their changes worked out better for the business and project!