--- title: The VC-backed Open Source Endgame | daily.dev description: Cloudflare is acquiring VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, OXC, and Rolldown, marking what the author sees as the endgame for VC-backed open source.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-vc-backed-open-source-endgame-slxufsqsk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The VC-backed Open Source Endgame | daily.dev og:description: Cloudflare is acquiring VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, OXC, and Rolldown, marking what the author sees as the endgame for VC-backed open source.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-vc-backed-open-source-endgame-slxufsqsk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/slXuFSqsK.png og:image:alt: The VC-backed Open Source Endgame og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [Read post](https://api.daily.dev/r/slXuFSqsK) # [The VC-backed Open Source Endgame](https://api.daily.dev/r/slXuFSqsK "Go to post") Cloudflare is acquiring VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, OXC, and Rolldown, marking what the author sees as the endgame for VC-backed open source. Looking back at a wave of similar companies, nearly all have been acquired rather than building sustainable independent businesses. The author argues this signals a shift from framework wars to platform wars, with future open source likely falling into three buckets: billionaire passion projects, small indie tools, and platform-sponsored projects designed to funnel users toward paid products. The newsletter also covers Angular v22, the OXC team integrating a Rust port of the React compiler, and a new arc animation utility in Motion. 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