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Comment by samlambert

20 hours ago

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.

  • who said open source has no value? I worked at GitHub for 6 years i clearly love open source.

    We maintain Vitess using our company funds. Why are you going after a small company for defending itself against companies like Amazon but not criticizing the reason we have to do this.

    I would love to open source Neki and I have not said we won't.

    • See? You're proving my point. All you do is play games. Are you even capable of engaging without confrontation?