Comment by samlambert
17 hours ago
have you ever worked for a customer of AWS? If so you have contributed heavily to the destruction of commercial open source.
17 hours ago
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.
A year ago in the initial announcement post you explicitly mentioned open sourcing it.
> When we are ready we will release Neki as an open source project suitable for running the most demanding Postgres workloads.
Has this changed?
Acknowledging the benifits of keeping a commercial product closed source is one thing, claiming open source has no value is another thing.
Sad to see this coming from a company that was itself built on the foundation of an open-source project like Vitess.
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You've simply chosen not to listen, considering that they've voiced those concerns to me.
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.