It's not only less likely to have rug pulls in open source foundations, it's not really possible. Some foundations like CNCF have stood up when companies even tried this: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/05/01/protecting-nats-and-the-...
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I think Headlamp is less know but now that it's part of Kubernetes SIG UI and the kubernetes dashboard is essentially being deprecated, you'll see a lot more headlamp usage in the future imho and I think headlamp can benefit from more awareness and getting more folks involved too!
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/headlamp https://thelandsca.pe/2025/05/21/headlamp-now-part-of-the-si...
https://keycloak.devstats.cncf.io/d/1/activity-repository-gr...
CNCF has probably 20x the funding of the ASF and is a different organization that spends millions of dollars on security audits, events and more, you can read about it in our annual report: https://www.cncf.io/reports/cncf-annual-report-2023/
Also we actively remove/prune projects that aren't active... we will probably archive ~10 this year https://www.cncf.io/project-metrics/
I actually prefer the approach of LF, EF or CNCF where it's transparent where folks work for and your affiliation is disclosed upfront. In the CNCF for example, we separate out technical project decisions (maintainers) from funding decisions (members). That is healthier than blending it all in one at the ASF imho and having no idea where person is working for imho.
In some ways, it's nice to see companies move to use mostly open source infrastructure, a lot of it coming from CNCF (https://landscape.cncf.io), ASF and other organizations out there (on top of the random things on github).
https://landscape.lfai.foundation
They have graduated levels like CNCF :)
https://landscape.lfai.foundation
Would love to collaborate with the author of this as I help run CNCF/LF landscape infrastructure.
We would be interested in hosting and supporting this type of work.
You can reach out to me via cra@linuxfoundation.org if you want to chat
... and/or set of values: https://kubernetes.io/community/values/
There's also a lot of open source guides here https://todogroup.org/resources/guides/ that may help you if you're looking at building mature open source projects.
As someone who has been involved in many open source foundations over the years, they all have their pros/cons. If you are looking for the most customized approach, the Linux Foundation (LF) is probably the most customizable as they have build hundreds of entities that many people may not think of being part of the LF... CNCF... GraphQL Foundation... R Consortium... OpenJS Foundation... Overture Maps Foundation... LF is really "foundation as a service" and they are best at ecosystem building from my biased perspective.
There are other foundations out there with their own advantages... ASF is very lightweight and pretty much accepts anything open source as long as you adhere to their fairly simple rules... EF is great if you have a need for a European base etc
I hope Godot continues to improve and competition increases in the open source AAA gaming engine space as this space is well overdue for fully open source options.
There's an open source gaming engine event in Austin coming up next month: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/o3dcon/
However, it is one of the only technologies that pretty much is available on every major cloud provider in the world as a managed service with guarantees of compatibility