10 years Home Assistant

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Won’t happen! :wink: :slight_smile:

  1. HA is open-source, if someone like a company wants to use it, it already can. It’s the push of a button to fork the repo and you have all you need. No costs involved!

  2. For you and everyone else goes the same. Fork the repo and have a fun ride. :laughing:

  3. To get anything out of a buy, you’d need to convince nearly all current developers and team members to move away from practically all they live and worked hard for. Paulus said something in a sidenote, that I found very reassuring, not just because I know that feeling, it’s why I changed my profession some 25 years ago…

    There is something very satisfying about making things change in the real world from your code.

    Paulus Schousten via HA blog
    It’s a the way you want to live your life, and if you can afford it by doing what you’re doing, you have reached a major life goal. From there on, the only chance to get these people to another job, is something more interesting, something challenging. And for the moment, I highly doubt there would be something on the horizon. These guys love what they do, it’s their baby, they would only give it up, if the other thing is so much more interesting, like flying to Mars… :slight_smile:

I know how that must sound for a “normal” person, but coders and hackers are different people. :slight_smile:

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There are already 24.800 forks of HA-core :grin:

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Developers need a fork in order to add/debug/improve the code and create pull-requests :wink:

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It’s not holding onto the past. It’s holding onto the better functionality of what made HA what it is today.

I honestly think that if HA started out today with it’s emphasis on creating/maintaining everything via a UI (like countless other automation platforms do) then it wouldn’t be as popular as it is.

It’s as popular as it is BECAUSE of that finer grained control via yaml and jinja for the advanced users along with the newer UI stuff for the newer/less techie users.

without the old stuff there wouldn’t likely have been the new stuff because there would be nothing to build upon.

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Congrats! i’ll never forget spinning up version 0.38 and trying to figure out YAML for the very first time. I remember getting frustrated and giving up, then a month later trying again and getting the hang of it and never looking back :slight_smile: