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Plane takes on Jira with open source project management tool for software teams | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 7 months ago by TheOneWithTheHair to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (9 children)

How are projects like this created?

This github repo is 6 months old, they already have 18+k stars and over 800 forks.

This looks like some overfunded pseudo-FOSS shit. Make the bare minimum open source and sell the rest to enterprises.

Why not take the money and really fund an existing project like kanboard or redmine?

I mean ffs kanboard is at least 10 years old and has less than 8k stars on github.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

they look ugly. plane looks like linear which is a win in my book

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

With $4M you could round the edges and then some.

I think that open source people should also be able to recognize that always sponsoring a new project is not the open source way.
They could have given established software a facelift and added a lot more features and this would have been better for the open source world than what they did.

I mean it's not wrong what they did. They just shouldn't get as much praise for making it open source.
Imagine everyone creating their own versioning system because they don't like githubs frontend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think we're thinking about it wrong. These aren't open source people looking to contribute to projects. These are product creators looking to reach the open source community. It's not the same mindset.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I do know that. But lots of folks even here don't and that is my problem with all that.

The FOSS community shouldn't praise them or companies like them simply for open sourcing the MVP of a new product.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

That's a fair take

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Imagine everyone creating their own versioning system because they don’t like githubs frontend.

I have no problem with that if they offer something new to the space

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yes, but the only thing they add is enterprise addons. We don't need more of those.

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