Node.js, a popular tool for building modern internet services, has split in two
I think the intersection of politics and internet is interesting. I write about it quite a bit on my blog, as well as here: <a href="http://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2013/04/a-new-kind-of-platform/" rel="nofollow">http://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2013/04/a-new-kind-of-platfor...</a><p>In this case, we see sort of an "arab spring" of open source projects lately. Consider MySQL after it was bought by Oracle, and then the MariaDB fork was born. Now we have Node.js and Docker being forked. Until now, most successful communities have been monarchies or oligarchies, whether it was Linux or Python. Corporate sponsorship played a big role. But if more headless or democratic communities succeed, it will be interesting to watch. PHP is an example of a more headless community, and it used to be all over the place.<p>There are two ways politics and internet interact. One way is how the tools we use affect our society in meatspace and the other is how we organize online in cyberspace.