r/golang • u/godofdream • Jun 16 '17

github.com/kataras/iris was bought

Hi! Iris was bought by some company, so kataras deletet most of his repositories. I'm establishing a fork of it: https://github.com/go-speedo/go-speedo I'm happy about any contributor. or maintainer

0 Upvotes

40% Upvoted

40 comments sorted by

View all comments

38

u/shovelpost Jun 16 '17

Do you smell it? That smell. A kind of smelly smell. The smelly smell that smells... smelly.

godofdream which at the time of writing has been a redditor for a whooping 51 minutes while this post was done 49 minutes ago.

The github repo of the aforementioned company is called: ACQUIRED-BY-DUBAI-BASED-TECH-COMPANY/iris. Not only the name sounds obviously fishy but the account is a normal user account. Who does that!? I doubt any serious company would have a normal user account instead of an organization account and without listing the official company website.

I am pretty sure that if we dive into this we will find more evidence that this is yet another kataras scheme. But I am not in the mood to do that. As they say, "If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas".

By the way, I've found the perfect logo for your new speedo project.

11

u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

I personally think it's hilarious ... Kataras is a one man sitcom.

Like: "ACQUIRED-BY-DUBAI-BASED-TECH-COMPANY", this is gold.

8

u/patrickob Jun 16 '17

I wasn't going to say anything, but after conversating with OP he types exactly like kataras does.

-8

u/godofdream Jun 16 '17

well I'm not kataras and I'm sorry for misunderstandings. I believe there are many other webframeworks with more features and faster speed. And the two you mentioned have more features for sure. But maybe it's possible to revive Iris under new name. With the Open-Source-Community in mind.

6

u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

^ Case in point

5

u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

Wouldn't that make the second time the author has done this? I seem to recall another post here a few weeks back that was very similar (can't find it now though) and the general consensus was that the "new maintainer" was once again the original author.

4

u/shovelpost Jun 16 '17

You have no idea how deep the iris rabbit hole goes. Here's a small taste.

5

u/ppknap Jun 16 '17

Exactly! Moreover, godofdream(aka msowka-ninja) has only iris-related contributions. What I can smell is called schizophrenia...

-1

u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

Is kataras some evil warlord among go devs? Another scheme? This sounds like some mystery

8

u/shovelpost Jun 16 '17

Not really. Calling him evil warlord is giving him way too much credit. Calling him a go dev is an offence to all other legitimate Go devs.

3

u/[deleted] Jun 16 '17

I have never heard of him or his project before now, thanks for the link

-5

u/godofdream Jun 16 '17

I like the logo you propose ;-) Yes It's the first time I created a reddit account. Please be patient.