Cool Runnings – PostgreSQL's 2nd strike at the Uber blog

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46 pointsumairshahid2 comments

This looks like really good and well-timed reaction to Uber's case. And shame on Uber that it was absolutely not transparent, hiding its problems.

If you use FOSS, you must be open to communications with the Open Source community. There is a lot of ways to do it. If you're a giant, you can find resources to change the software and contribute with patches, but if you cannot do it, please at least speak openly (or at least privately to some core developers), explaining your needs and issues.

Using FOSS without that is the same as using pirate versions of Oracle or Microsoft products, without buying support subscription.

I think the sponsorship/bounty model is excellent. Instead of making one of your employees spend several months modifying a program or migrating to a different solution, offer to pay money ($5k? $10k?) for a solution to your particular problem.

LuaJIT used this for many of its ports to different architectures, where a company would pay $20k or so to sponsor work to make it run on their platform. Cloudflare sponsored string-specific optimizations for their WAF.

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