[Brian_K_White]

Anything they "maintainer of last resort" would actually be forks, or collectively a distribution. We already have hundreds of distributions acting as maintainer of last resort many times over, only with actual developers and not presuming to make themselves the new upstream for anyone else.

[sakjur]

Microsoft controls NPM and GitHub. I would not put it past them to truly take over a project if they gauged it in their best interest (though it would be a massive violation of trust, so I'd imagine they'd tread carefully before going there).

If it's sent to Akrites, they can even pretend it's done responsibly – even though only megacorps get a seat around that table.

[trashb]

Well, they did invent EEE after all. Why would they thread carefully? They own the product/service they can shut it down, no need for explanations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

[RobotToaster]

We already saw Automattic (the owners of wordpress) do exactly that in their plugin repository for purely commercial reasons.