Microsoft will buy them. Penpot will be absorbed into Microsoft Office 365 Design Studio and Taiga will be absorbed into Microsoft Project Management for Teams.

If that ever happened, the way you describe it, you'd also find my dead body the next morning. The autopsy would read like this "The cause of the death was forcefully ingestion of a full set of CDs with some strange 'Debian 1.3' markings, the poor fellow bled from within and suffered greatly in long agony". 25 years of open source hacktivism can't end like that, I wouldn't be able to process it. I'm Penpot's CEO BTW.

LOL, that's encouraging! Better keep those VCs at a safe distance!

Crap, now I'm positive I shouldn't have gotten rid of my AOL coaster collection.

Cisco will probably buy Penpot and maintain it the same way after how Zoom bought Keybase. Microsoft will just buy Lunacy instead [0].

[0] https://icons8.com/lunacy

Let's hope it will not end like Microsoft Expression. We actually bought a few licenses because it looked promising, but what a sorry way to go. IIRC Microsoft even offered refund for some purchased licenses.

All the downvotes.. Decibel is an independent venture capital firm created in partnership with Cisco, their play is to invest strategically in companies that Cisco can acquire. This isn't some made up witchcraft.