Seemingly a universally liked man. So much so, that dolphins rescued him when he fell asleep on his surfboard aged 84.
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"Color.io will be winding down over the coming weeks and the online service will fully shut down on December 31, 2025. Until then, everything will continue to run as usual, and Pro users will receive access to a downloadable offline version they can keep using indefinitely... I want to be transparent about why this is happening. Color.io isn’t shutting down because it's struggling. But after 10+ years of running everything alone, I’ve reached a point where I need to grow in ways that aren’t possible as a solo builder. I have an opportunity to work alongside a company whose products have shaped and inspired me, to work on creative tooling at a scale I could never reach on my own. This is an opportunity to work with people I admire, on tools that will reach far beyond what I could build alone."
I'm not a customer, I've never heard of color.io before. It looks like a professional product, and appears to have an audience. So I'm curious about why the owner isn't selling it or open-sourcing it. I appreciate the transparency in the post, but it seems an odd decision. I'm sure it's more complicated than I'm imagining.
Any more detail? Is color.io a competitor to the owner's new opportunity?
You point to Linux but assume that Linus' infamous foul behaviour has been beneficial. This is a very basic confusion of correlation and causation.
You suggest that being "welcoming" is antithetical to "success" without defining "success".
Also, note what the "B" stands for in BDFL.
Nope. This is a sop, an equivalent to the non-apology "I'm sorry you took what I said so badly".
Aggression masquerading as "honesty" has no place in any organisation that wants to be taken seriously.
It's most certainly not "OK" when Andreas' personal opinions are expressed in ad-hominem attacks.
Nim unfortunately has a toxic Dictator at the top, and his subordinates defend his behaviours. While this continues nobody should take Nim seriously.
Should we really advocate for using AI to both create and then destroy huge amounts of data that will never be used?
That said, FOSS has a big problem with maintainer burn-out. It seems that projects like SQLite demonstrate more sustainable models, such as source-available and a closed group of maintainers who are exposed to limited demands from users.
But maybe that's just me. I appreciate this is a stylistic complaint, so I doubt everyone will agree. Still, for a factual piece that I expected to read more like reportage, I found this article fiddly to process.