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🎭 NATS: When Your Digital Child Becomes the Prize in a Custody Battle

Reminder to all companies:
If you build your empire on open-source and contribute nothing back, don't be surprised when the ground starts cracking.

NATS, one of the few messaging systems that actually works without summoning ancient demons, now finds itself torn between its creators at Synadia and its adoptive guardians at CNCF. Like any good custody battle, it’s about one thing: Money. 🤑

As a tiny contributor to NATS, it fills me with childlike glee and existential dread to witness what happens when open source ideals collide headfirst with cold, hard business reality.
It’s a classic story:
A vendor generously donates an open-source jewel… only to demand it back when the math stops adding up.

Synadia, the ever-devoted parent, wants to put NATS under the Business Source License (BSL) to secure its survival. Meanwhile, CNCF holds the project in a loving but legally fortified embrace, refusing to let go.

CNCF, clutching its righteous torch of community ownership, refuses to hand over the toys, reminding Synadia: “You gave it away. There are rules. Also… you signed things.”

As a microscopic speck in this universe of giants, I have one simple emotion: sadness.
Sadness that the best technology can still be crushed under the weight of human greed, misaligned incentives, and tragic irony.

OSS survives because we believe in it. OSS dies when we monetize belief.

Whatever happens, little NATS deserves better than a lawsuit. It deserves a future.

Will I stop contributing to NATS?
No. I'm far too stubborn for that.
Will I trust it the same way?
Ask me again when the lawsuits stop.

⚡ Still contributing. Still dreaming. Still worried.

Sources:
* cncf.io: cncf.io/blog/2025/04/24/protec
* thestack: thestack.technology/we-want-it
* Nats.io: github.com/cncf/foundation/blo
#opensource #natsio #cncf #synadia #foss #techdrama #softwareengineering #NATS #OSS #BusinessSourceLicense #DeveloperLife #SupportOSS #coding #programming

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Simon Phipps

There's long been a view held by certain cynical entrepreneurs that they can go with #OpenSource to build a user base then bait-and-switch #SoftwareFreedom away once it is established. That's bad.

What's worse is to donate to an open source Foundation then pretend you have the right to "take back" the project later.

This is not a new phenomenon, we have seen it before and can spot the signs (like fake licenses). But this case (#NATS at #CNCF) looks pretty severe.

cncf.io/blog/2025/04/24/protec

CNCF · Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the communityWhen a company contributes a project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), it’s not just sharing code—it’s making a commitment to the open source community. It’s a pledge to uphold open…
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hannah aubry

Today, #AWS announced an extended $3 million annual commitment to #Kubernetes, reaffirming our commitment to supporting open source projects with the vital infrastructure they need to operate at global scale. For free.
aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensourc

Amazon Web Services · AWS Cloud Credits for Open Source Projects: Affirming Our Commitment | Amazon Web ServicesToday, Amazon Web Services is proud to reaffirm our commitment to providing vital infrastructure for free and open source software projects. One of the ways we are doing this is with an extended $3 million annual commitment to the Kubernetes project, the container orchestration platform which underpins the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). We’re […]
#OpenSource#CNCF#OSS
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