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What are they trying to get away with here? Is there a benefit to the dotnet foundation and corresponding cost to maintainers for an org being moved to the enterprise account?

I agree that it shouldn’t have been done in secret, but beyond that I don’t see any bad intentions here.

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I don't know that they're trying to get away with anything. From reading some of the linked blog posts and issues, it sounds like some people involved in the management of the DNF effectively consider all projects beneath the DNF umbrella to be theirs to administer and change as they see fit.

And it sounds like the maintainers, rightfully, are wary about continuing with the DNF particularly because they haven't been consulted in years.

That sounds about right. I always wonder what is the benefit of moving your open source project to a foundation. My best guess is that it’s when you are just done dealing with the project and want somebody else to maintain it, but you haven’t found an individual you trust to take it over.

Once an open source project gets successful, there's a lot of pressure to do it, and among other things, gives the incumbents in the space some modicum of control

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