Developers weren’t happy when identity and access control software company Duende commercialized its open source IdentityServer product in December 2022, The post IdentityServer4 is dead. Here’s what comes next. appeared first on The New Stack .
The commercialization of IdentityServer4 in December 2022 by Duende has reached a point where the open-source community is publicly reacting and finding alternatives.
This event highlights the ongoing tension between open-source projects and their commercialization, specifically in critical infrastructure software, impacting developer trust and ecosystem stability.
Developers are now actively seeking new, truly open-source identity and access control solutions, potentially fracturing the ecosystem and leading to new project emergence.
- · New open-source identity projects
- · Companies offering fully open-source alternatives
- · Developers looking for non-commercialized identity solutions
- · Duende
- · Commercialized open-source projects that alienate communities
- · Developers reliant on free, unsupported IdentityServer4
The identity and access management developer community will diversify, with multiple new or existing open-source projects gaining prominence.
This trend could encourage other open-source projects to refine their monetization strategies to avoid similar community backlash.
Long-term, this could lead to a more robust, but fragmented, open-source identity landscape, necessitating increased integration efforts for enterprise users.
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