[ramonverse]

I think COSS is great, it makes the code more secure and auditable and makes sure the developers get paid to fix security vulnerabilities. Volunteer OSS is great in theory but it sometimes leads to overworked developers being exploited by foreign intelligence services https://www.techrepublic.com/article/xz-backdoor-linux/. Supabase & Nextjs are part of the so called VC backed open source and they are great.

[no_wizard]

My opinion is that Supabase is one of the best models for OSS business we have seen. Do they get everything right? No, but they embody the spirit and adjust slot based on community feedback.

Vercel on the other hand, not so much. They’re closing the loop on multiple open source avenues and have been making features Vercel hosted only for awhile now. It’s getting harder and harder to properly and easily self-host Next.js for example.