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Comment by newtwentysix | Hacker News Reader

super curious what exactly does it mean to acquire an open source product.

Devs gotta eat. Yeah the code is out there but the code is a result of a lot of thinking, prioritization, research into what is needed from the actual product. So now AWS owns that mindshare and talent and will (probably heavily) influence its decisions. I just hope DuckDB doesn't stray from its goal of being the SQLite (e.g. embedded) OLAP.

When will folks finally learn that if they like having a salary, devs that produce tools actually would like to have one as well?

Never. When it comes to me I am just a poor hustler, surviving a s/w job to make ends meet. When it comes to open source I am gonna hold those guys to highest standard, code, github behavior, tweets, everything must live up to best human ideals.

So give your tools, your life, free bug fixing, priority attention to me because I am getting my paid job done. Why they need money anyway, they can leave on reputation of OSS contributors. Also not to forget I donated 5 dollars last year so now give me full certified audit of your finances of last 5 years.

It can go different ways. Redis, Elastic Search, MySQL, and Java all have different stories with some common threads.

Complete control over what gets merged and worked on by the core team.

it was already like that, and merging 3rd party changes to the core was troublesome, so maybe aws just bought them cause of this reason :D

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