Comment by margalabargala
19 hours ago
They both are characteristics of software that people consider when deciding whether to use it.
Open source being by far the more important of the two, since it means the user is more insulated by terrible corporate decisions thus making it more suitable for long term planning.
have you ever worked for a customer of AWS? If so you have contributed heavily to the destruction of commercial open source.
I've never known in a shorter time that a CEO is too defensive to be a business partner faster.
It is the only reason I come to the comments section of PlanetScale posts on HN.
Their CEO always immediately comes in and makes a fool out of himself. He is what you get when you mix narcissism and being a midwit.
I have not in fact, no, despite working 12 years as an SWE.
Unlike you, probably, if we're slinging unfounded accusations.
But your customers are, of course, somehow different? What point are you even trying to make?
Commerical open source is fine. It's nobody else's fault if you raised too much to make it work sustainably.
My customers aren't pretending it's a bad thing that Neki isn't open source.
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modeling your public relations strategy after matt mullenweg, I see
It's very effective, I'm certainly persuaded to never touch their products.
A remarkable own goal given that if they'd literally held their tongue, I'd be at worst indifferent.