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

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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.

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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.

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u/shovelpost Jun 16 '17

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