How does open source have anything to do with Neki's ability to scale against a service that doesn't even do sharding.

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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samlambert 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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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tvink 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I've never known in a shorter time that a CEO is too defensive to be a business partner faster.

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margalabargala an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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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fwip 16 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

modeling your public relations strategy after matt mullenweg, I see

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xyzzy_plugh 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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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samlambert an hour ago | parent [-]

My customers aren't pretending it's a bad thing that Neki isn't open source.

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dkgs 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	samlambert 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		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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cschmatzler 43 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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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xyzzy_plugh an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

You've simply chosen not to listen, considering that they've voiced those concerns to me.