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It has significant usage across large companies such as Apple, Snowflake, Epic Games, VMWare, etc. I don't see it going closed source. Besides that, here Tigris is taking the responsibility for the product as it is abstracting FoundationDB from the end-user.

I can assure you from FDB will not be closed sourced again. But I agree that it was pretty bad for its [open source] users that it was made closed source. Terrible move for adoption.

> FDB fucked it's users back in 2015 when it abruptly closed shop and went closed source

This is simply untrue - it was not open source prior to acquisition either. The first point at which FDB was open-source was 2018.

FDB screwed their users in 2015 when they abruptly closed shop with no further development, support, or even a migration plan.

Gotta get that Apple money.

Many of those users continued to be users, with source licenses, who are users to this day. If you had a commercial contract you were unaffected. Perhaps not if you were freeloading…

Ah yes, it was my own fault for believing in them.

I mean, that was Apple. It was no small feat to get them to later open source it.