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by Ctech237 5259 days ago
I think this has to do with large companies resenting the fact open source developers spend their time making a free eco system better instead of improving their own frameworks for free.

I understand that JavaScript has its limitations, and Google tried to address this with their own language Dart. But this boils down to, you have a 100 billion dollar company serving 1 billion searches a day so you have different scalability issues than I do. But that’s not my problem. With the current technologies like Node, MongoDB, Reids, etc… I can build a 1 billion dollar startup without the same scalability issues that a 100 billion dollar company has.

I would be quite happy to have a these scalability issues once I have a 100 billion dollar company then it will be my problem. But until then, getting a start-up up and running is ridiculously hard, the last thing I need is companies generating truckloads of cash putting their development issues on to open source developers.