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Appreciate the transparency on this and the CNCFs commitment to the NATs project and it's contributors and ends users 🙌

@averagemarcus.bsky.social

thanks, not the most fun part of the job but definitely necessary to ensure the commons and level playing field

24/4/25, 3:31 pm0 reposts4 likes

Marcus Noble

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

@averagemarcus.bsky.social

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 💪

Marcus Noble

25 Apr 2025

Yeah, stronghold was the wrong word. I couldn’t think how to phrase it. The “do-ocracy” phrase Chris used is more apt. Those who show up and do the work do get the influence. I am completely onboard with those people being paid for that work, nothing to apologise for there at all.

also very commendable, transparent and very smart of Bouyant for pushing forward on a hard problem, it’s not easy and I sympathize with any vendor trying to build a business around an open source project, kudos

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!