A group of Die Hard Engineers and Scientists and Powerusers, fighting corporate protocol capture. Feels like.
The Last Stand. 😂
Discussion
they're not doing us any favors pitting us against these VCs all the while telling us "dont start a company thats how it all gets ruined". brb, sending millions to bsky and primal. 😂 i mean, im sure they dont even realize how much that stings.
It's bitter, yeah, but game recognize game.
Entire ecosystem of research devs, working for tips. 😂
ever wonder why NFDB is not open source?
Nah, we know. We also weren't sure if we want to open source our stuff, as it's mostly just a ploy to milk individual developers for IP, without having to pay them anything.
OSS works when there is mutual benefit to all involved stakeholders.
the main benefit of open source is free testing
many corporate backed OSS projects fall into two categories: products, or “standards”
products almost always get rugged with BSL or some other license anyway, example MongoDB, ScyllaDB, Hashicorp stuff
“standards” are one company having a problem, solving it, and open sourcing it in the hopes they get other adopters
this then gives them free contributions
examples are FDB, a bunch of the forks like OpenTofu/OpenBao, Kubernetes, Envoy, etc.