Ultimately their intention does matter, even open source projects tend to die once the financial interest in their success is gone. Most open source libraries you interact with are created in the course of building apps internally at a company, created by consultants and free lancers to support their consulting work, or are created as monetizable products in their own right.
Software is a hard and complex thing to build, people don't tend to work full-time on projects which they can't earn a living from.
> Ultimately their intention does matter, even open source projects tend to die once the financial interest in their success is gone.
> Software is a hard and complex thing to build, people don't tend to work full-time on projects which they can't earn a living from.
Wouldn't these be positive points towards how Wasmer is running the company? They are trying to keep their open source product alive by marketing and finding a way to build revenue, to continue to fund development.
In the end, if they fail, it's all open source, someone can fork and continue it if the demand is there. Until then, they are the ones doing it, and doing it well imo.
Software is a hard and complex thing to build, people don't tend to work full-time on projects which they can't earn a living from.