Disclaimer: I used to work for Citus and have options.

> Equity, however, creates a conflict of interest. If the non-profit Postgres organizations make money when Citus makes money, then they have an incentive to favor Citus over other companies. > Let's say there's a Citus competitor. The competitor implements a feature a bit differently than Citus. Does Postgres support both organizations equally? Or if there's a technical decision to be made, and it involves making one company's code incompatible with base Postgres, who do you think will win?

Note that none of the non-profits have technical decision making power. That's in the end the decision of the committers (and potentially the core team if there's irreconcilable conflicts). Both groups work for a variety of companies.