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by xyzzy_plugh16 hours ago |
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upvoteby karlmush12 hours ago|
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Every PlanetScale launch seems to come with a side of beef with the competition. Case in point: https://x.com/samlambert/status/2098069474205470970?s=20

Just launch the product and let it speak for itself. The constant need to take shots at competitors comes across as pretty childish.

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upvoteby vincnetas6 hours ago|
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Wow, that thread has bro energy maxed out. Is this normal modern way of communicating for top leaders or i'm getting old?
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upvoteby tpetry4 hours ago|
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Sam is always shitting on others. For years he has been screaming how bad PostgreSQL is compared to MySQL. Until getting silent about this topic for a few months and then launching PostgreSQL support. Seems he had to realize than the market for PostgreSQL is too big to ignore.
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upvoteby pm903 hours ago|
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No it isn’t normal, its just this one person. I don’t personally find this language particularly appealing, especially for a serious discussion on technology. But hey, its a free country, they’re a startup and its one way of grabbing the scarcest of resources: attention.
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upvoteby samlambert16 hours ago|
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How does open source have anything to do with Neki's ability to scale against a service that doesn't even do sharding.
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upvoteby margalabargala16 hours ago|
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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.

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upvoteby samlambert15 hours ago|
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have you ever worked for a customer of AWS? If so you have contributed heavily to the destruction of commercial open source.
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upvoteby tvink14 hours ago|
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I've never known in a shorter time that a CEO is too defensive to be a business partner faster.
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upvoteby therein13 hours ago|
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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.

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upvoteby margalabargala15 hours ago|
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I have not in fact, no, despite working 12 years as an SWE.

Unlike you, probably, if we're slinging unfounded accusations.

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upvoteby xyzzy_plugh15 hours ago|
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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.

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upvoteby samlambert15 hours ago|
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My customers aren't pretending it's a bad thing that Neki isn't open source.
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upvoteby cschmatzler14 hours ago|
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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?

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upvoteby dkgs14 hours ago|
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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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upvoteby samlambert14 hours ago|
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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.

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upvoteby xyzzy_plugh13 hours ago|
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See? You're proving my point. All you do is play games. Are you even capable of engaging without confrontation?
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upvoteby xyzzy_plugh15 hours ago|
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You've simply chosen not to listen, considering that they've voiced those concerns to me.
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upvoteby fwip14 hours ago|
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modeling your public relations strategy after matt mullenweg, I see
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upvoteby Twirrim13 hours ago|
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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.

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upvoteby kolanos12 hours ago|
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Do they get the same backlash if they went with a source available license similar to MongoDB or Elastic?
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