[tabbott]

As we do our best to explain in the post: The Zulip project is very much not being annihilated.

There are 220 people from all over the world who have contributed 20 or more commits to Zulip, and thousands more who've contributed code, volunteer translations, ideas, thoughtful questions, and in so many other ways.

Personally, I find remarks like this to be extremely disrespectful to all of those wonderful people and their open-source work.

[nolok]

I don't disagree with you in general terms, but what % of total commits or code change came from you and the three others leaving? A long lived long tail is great, but it still often dies out when you cut the head

[ok_dad]

If you’re not that familiar with the project then what’s it to you?

Personally, I think this is great and I’m going to send this to my boss who might have to make a similar decision someday. It seems to me like they could have just sold the product to them but went to lengths to keep it independent; that’s the type of thing we should encourage.

No offense intended but sometimes this type of comment sounds like the other side of the AI psychosis coin, like an anti AI psychosis.

[jeltz]

Poaching four full time core developers is bound to hurt any open source project, even ones much larger than Zulip.