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One of the main reasons to donate a project to a foundation, such as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), is to protect the community against this type of rugpull. A requirement for them to even consider adopting a project is that it isn’t under majority control of one single commercial entity.

Do people honestly believe none of these projects compete with commercial solutions, or are they mostly oblivious these exist at all?

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A better measurement would be how many of those projects are still relevant in 10 years from now.

From today, or from when they first joined?

Also consider that a project needs to not only have existed, but to already have an established track record of being vendor-neutral before it can join.

Kubernetes joined CNCF on March 10, 2016. Prometheus joined May 9, 2016.

In 2017, these 10 projects joined:

    - Linkerd
    - gRPC
    - CoreDNS
    - Containerd
    - rkt
    - CNI
    - Envoy
    - Jaeger
    - Notary
    - TUF

Of those 12, only one (rkt) has been archived. Do you honestly believe the majority of these will be unsupported 10 years from now, let alone 10 years from when they were added (or started in the first place)?

Now remove the ones with FAANG funding.

I’m not seeing the relevance. If you’re going to move the goalposts, you could at least explain why.

The whole point that I failed to fully express on my sentence, was how many of those projects are still relevant in 10 years from now, without the funding of commercial entities.

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