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randall on March 12, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Six months with Meteor: Why the future of the web ...

I just peeked at the source, and it says it's MIT licensed, but without the BDFL[1], would we see progress in the spirit its intended?

I worry about this with Angular too, but given that Google has obvious areas of synergy, I'm way less concerned about its doom.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_for_Life

pbiggar on March 12, 2013 [–]

Maybe, but they probably have 5 years of cash, so I personally wouldn't worry about it. There can be a new BFDL should the unthinkable happen, so long as the code is open source.

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