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I’m completely out of the loop. What’s going on with Spring Boot?
by jchmbrln 1y ago
I’m completely out of the loop. What’s going on with Spring Boot?
- radicalbyte 1y agoThe VMware apocalypse.
- heisenbit 1y agoOne does not need VMware for SpringBoot so?
- xienze 1y agoSpring’s corporate steward is VMWare, and Broadcom bought VMWare, ergo Spring is subject to Broadcom’s whims.
- TYMorningCoffee 1y agoVMware owns Spring Boot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Boot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Boot
- loloquwowndueo 1y agoNot spring boot, but spring, is owned by VMware. Sure spring is under a free license but if upstream enshittifies, community forks would be required.
- mindcrime 1y agoAnd as popular and widely used as Spring is, that would 100% happen. To me at least, I wouldn't count this as a particularly huge risk. But in an enterprise setting, with mandatory auditing and stuff, I can understand why there would be a requirement to at least pre-identify alternative(s).
- terminalbraid 1y ago> Not spring boot, but spring, is owned by VMware How do I reconcile this statement with VMWare holding the copyright which you will find unambiguously littered in the official Spring Boot repository? Since you contend the contrary, who does in fact hold the copyright?
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- xienze 1y agoProbably a bit of overreaction given that Broadcom is now in charge of Spring. At the end of the day it’s a wildly popular open source project — it has a path forward if Broadcom pulls shenanigans. That said, I have noticed that the free support window for any given version is super short these days. I.e. if you’re not on top of constantly upgrading you’re looking at paid support if you want security patches.