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Comment by mhuffman | Hacker News Reader

I swear this DB could solve all the technical problems in the world and it will still have an image problem ... unless that is the point.

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"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Assuming that the animal was chosen based on it's survival traits, I think C. elegans might be a better choice.

ElegantDB?

Do you have a list of classic flamewar topics?

No; such a list would encourage flamewars about the topics not on it and metaflamewars about the list itself.

So basically the list is in your head? That's not very open.

HN is moderated! That means humans making interpretations and judgment calls. There's no way to make that 'open' in the sense I imagine you mean, but we try our best to be 'open' in the sense of being clear about what we're doing and answering questions about particular cases.

What we don't do is formalize everything, because a) that's impossible and b) what a nightmare it would be to try.

I think it's a perfect opportunity to combine a rooster and a doobie into a logo.

Someone should write a formal proof of correctness in Coq.

Same discussion every time there is a post about CockroachDB. It's time to get over it.

I actually clicked on the comments to this article specifically to see, and laugh at, the flamewar I knew was going to ensue.

Someone has a solution to your problem:

https://github.com/tschottdorf/bikesheddb

Sounds to me like an opportunity for a dual trademark business model. Similarly to a dual license model where you receive the software with a restrictive license like AGPL whose only purpose is to make the software undesirable to companies and a paid permissive licene like MIT you could also use an undesirable trademark for the free version and a professional trademark that companies are willing to associate themselves with.

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