You should envy the team. They've raised tens of millions of dollars for licensing of an algorithm that people RE'd in a day.
Their business now involves lots of bizdev droids and threatening open source implementors with baseless copyright lawsuits. It's nice work if you can get it.
It is owned by a single corporate entity who is also its primary sponsor, Typesafe. This is similar to how Joyent owns node, and how they sponsor it's development, along with NodeJitsu, Microsoft, Heroku and others.
Hard to say without knowing more details but there are two big red flags in the first option: that the co is run by a VC as a side project and that it is "productizing" technology licensed from someone else.
Did not find any obvious references as to who is backing this project, but it seems to be a Chinese software consultancy.
https://www.highgo.ca/
> What’s the point of doing some just for the sake of destroying other people’s business?
Apart from any potential ideological reasons related to open source, they are likely planning to support their own business by providing a compelling product.
It's a large boring company. Bring on the Salesforce Show HN's lol. The link you reference makes it sound like it should come from a single person who is hacking something together and wants to share it.
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