[paavokoya]

I've noticed a lot of these "Foundations" for open-source projects eventually lead to in-fighting and control usurping where entire boards of directors "resign" and thus the legitimacy of the whole project is questioned. Is this necessary?

[nerdwaller]

I can't say I've witnessed the same thing. Instead many cases start out as a pet project of a company (maybe in 20% time) and then are adopted by it (Node being a good example). Then comes the infighting and then later foundationizing.

Back in the early 2000s there were more problems as all sorts of large companies were pushing their agenda attempting to exclude others. But since then, it seems they've mostly realized that open source is a positive sum game, meaning everyone benefits from the work.

I hope Java follows this path as Oracle has been a terrible steward of the JVM and related ecosystem. The foundation concept has been really positive for Python, Node (so far), Linux, et al