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by samlambert17 hours ago |
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upvoteby tvink15 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 therein14 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 margalabargala16 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_plugh17 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 samlambert16 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 cschmatzler16 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 dkgs15 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 samlambert15 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_plugh14 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_plugh16 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 fwip15 hours ago|
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modeling your public relations strategy after matt mullenweg, I see
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upvoteby Twirrim14 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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