[ctoth]

Use to be that if there was a nice open source project that solved most of a problem you had, you'd jump on, if you had the ability, and contribute back to it. Now I guess we just wait for random handouts from big companies so we don't have to do any work ourselves. Bit of a shame, the appification of open source, but I guess that's where it's going. Big and supported, with no room for newcomers. I wonder how this is much different than what people say about net neutrality? Once the big guys are there, they'll actively do what they can to kick the latter down so no upstarts can chase them up it, and I guess this is just as true of the web. Hope we can find a big company to release us an open source web replacement one of these decades, since I guess we won't be able to band together and build it for ourselves.

[bsaul]

I see it as a sign of maturity. People now realize it's completely unreasonable to think about debugging or maintaining some codebase as a hobby themselves (aka: in addition to the product they're building). For a cross-platform dev framework on mobile, knowing the pace at which those platforms are moving, you need something that has both the team , the fund and the stakes.

[rapsey]

> Now I guess we just wait for random handouts from big companies so we don't have to do any work ourselves.

Yeah the kids nowadays are terrible.

Large codebases have never been particularly welcoming to newcomers.

[pjmlp]

We grew up and realised that only open source from big companies actually pays the bills.

[ctoth]

Painful but honest at least.