Re: Opensource.com Zsh article

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 2019-09-19 3:59 p.m., Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 3:34 PM Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
>> As I said, the answer to your question depends on what your question
>> actually means to you.  What _exactly_ is it that you think the
>> commercial entity might do in order to "take over" a project?
That's exactly what I'm asking.
> I believe Ray means that Apple copies the code and begins publishing
> it as "zsh", using their size and influence to declare that theirs is
> now "the" authoritative version of the shell.
Yes, some scenario like that.  Anyway it was only the most general 
question, I hadn't meant to dive into some hard situation.   But as an 
example, you can see that if  Apple did decide that zsh would become an 
essential component of their universe, that they'd want complete control 
of it, and thus be tempted to more or less brush you and the crew 
aside.  No malice it's just that you can't imagine Tim Cook asking you 
guys for permission to change something.  I wonder how that would play 
out.  Meanwhile bash rests on a single pair of shoulders; good health to 
Chet ;-)