I think the goal is efficiency. The realization that having a shared data strategy across the industry benefits everyone, including regulators, and make technology stacks more efficient.
Of course, like any other tech company, I think there's the desire to mutualize the cost of maintaining a core component (e.g. Facebook with Cassandra, Google with Kubernetes, etc).
It's a massive challenge but one that finally the industry is waking up to. It's not easy but having a massive support from the industry (http://symphony.foundation/#members) definitely tells me we are on the right path.
Said that, we need all the help we can get, so we'd love to see such passion consolidate in the Community we are trying to build.
I completely disagree, but that's you would expect as the Executive Director of the Foundation (http://symphony.foundation) that is trying to drive these banks in embracing open source and open collaboration as a better way to build technology.
I do believe that end users will benefit by these firms not reinventing the wheel and building innovative, more interoperable and ultimately better technology.
I, my team and I know I speak on behalf of our Community are committed to this level of transparency.
Thanks for raising the issue - we have fixed the mailing list (google groups) so now posting is allowed even for users that haven't yet joined the list.
And I mean, it got open sourced 2 days ago...so 100 stars is not that I bad I think...
And the trend is pretty positive https://porter.io/github.com/finos/legend
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