Samsung acquires Joyent

gaekwad · 2016-06-16 06:02:29

www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-perspective

colak · 2016-06-16 06:10:34

Sounds like a requiem to me.

wet · 2016-06-16 09:01:46

Samsung’s lawyers will find the gold pot of sueing everyone using their newly acquired NodeJS APIs in … three…two..one. (cue Oracle/Sun/Java).

kees-b · 2016-06-16 11:34:34

…and I still have some ex textdrive vc credit left until 2017, mostly unused, but the S. lawyers may consider that as a corpse in the cupboard ;) albeit a tiny one

gaekwad · 2016-06-16 13:00:08

Let’s hope Samsung are sympathetic to open source CMS projects and our hosting continues.

colak · 2016-06-16 13:32:58

kees-b wrote #299775:

…and I still have some ex textdrive vc credit left until 2017, mostly unused, but the S. lawyers may consider that as a corpse in the cupboard ;) albeit a tiny one

In theory when a company buys another one, they buy both their assets and their liabilities…. in theory!

gaekwad wrote #299776:

Let’s hope Samsung are sympathetic to open source CMS projects and our hosting continues.

+1. May it is time for one of our devs to write to them so as to get the sites secured?

Christopher · 2016-06-16 13:42:41

wet wrote #299773:

Samsung’s lawyers will find the gold pot of sueing everyone using their newly acquired NodeJS APIs in … three…two..one. (cue Oracle/Sun/Java).

In practical terms, I don’t think that’s really possible: Node.js moved over to it’s own foundation in 2015 and operates independently. Joyent is now just one of many corporate sponsors: https://nodejs.org/en/foundation/members/

At Joyent we’re all very excited and optimistic about this in part because it’s not at all like the Oracle/Sun situation. Bryan went through that experience once; he’s not about to do that again ;)

I think his post provides some good context: https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-perspective

Last edited by Christopher (2016-06-16 13:44:55)

wet · 2016-06-16 13:51:50

Christopher wrote #299778:

Joyent is now just one of many corporate sponsors: https://nodejs.org/en/foundation/members/

Yep. But I think this issue is a bit more entangled.

One thing I could not find is who owns the copyright to the contribution Joyent’s staff made back in the days when nodejs was a Joyent project and one Joyent employee was the main maintainer.

I.e. has Samsung now bought all of Joyent’s intellectual properties and do these include contributions to nodejs that were made by Joyent’s employees in the past?

Christopher · 2016-06-16 14:11:21

wet wrote #299779:

Yep. But I think this issue is a bit more entangled.

One thing I could not find is who owns the copyright to the contribution Joyent’s staff made back in the days when nodejs was a Joyent project and one Joyent employee was the main maintainer.

I.e. has Samsung now bought all of Joyent’s intellectual properties and do these include contributions to nodejs that were made by Joyent’s employees in the past?

No idea. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I’m not a lawyer and this not an area I’m even remotely qualified to speculate on.

What I do know is that Node.js was always an open source project incensed under MIT. Joyent’s role was as a corporate steward for the project. Node.js was never “invented” by Joyent, or a project that was created in Joyent. It was an open source project created by Ryan Dahl before Joyent sponsored him to work on it full time.

The code, license and commit history is all out in the open on GitHub, so I guess it’s open to all kinds of scrutiny and speculation at this point if you’re keen to go down that garden path: https://github.com/nodejs/node

Last edited by Christopher (2016-06-16 14:11:55)

mrdale · 2016-06-16 17:54:19

Perfect!

Soulless corporate juggernaut acquires unscrupulous charlatan poseur-co.

Not bitter or anything… Still smarting from “the great renegging” and the freewheeling “how hard could it be to run a hosting company” days of dean destructo.

giz · 2016-06-16 18:44:46

Shit sticks.

towndock · 2016-06-16 20:35:44

This may the only forum on earth where the announcement headline is seen as “Samsung Aquires TextDrive”.

Here’s hoping it takes Samsung a few years to notice their open source hosting.

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