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Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by npteljes »

hodgesrm wrote: post #47
npteljes wrote: post #24

>This is yet another case of American corporatism failing the open source world. I believe that simply "This is yet another case of American corporatism failing", full stop. It's a loophole in the system. It's a good thing that MariaDB is open source, so that a failure like this can't bring the product down.

Could you be more specific about how American corporatism is failing open source in this case? MariaDB PLC is not profitable and most investors give it low chances of getting there. It's currently trading at 25% of the IPO price which was already 40% below the initial opening. [0, 1] (I hope I'm reading the numbers correctly.) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34070451 [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mariad…

I specifically wanted to say that American corporatism failing, and open source are not related, despite the article saying so. Open source is just fine, regardless of these things happening - even the MariaDB project will survive, I believe. In my eye, the ones most hurt are the employees, and the people who wanted the project to be successful, including Monty.

Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by alienzx »

Whoever wrote this is an anonymous coward that was harassing employees from fake addresses and actively making up lies to sabotage the company for months. The person even made fake glassdoor reviews. It’s all half truths and bullshit. Is MariaDB perfect? Probably not, but they’re not about to go under. I mean the business writes all the code and keeps the foundation alive.

I just checked with some people I know over there and they can still slack Monty. He is still in their hr thing. Also, the old CFO wasn’t fired, he had to leave for some reason but still worked there for months after. They have a new CFO already. https://mariadb.com/newsroom/press-releases/mariadb-names-co...

Lawsuits are usually public and you can google it. There’s no crazy lawsuits like the person says. It’s just lies.

My wall street buddy told me the insurance stuff is standard practice when a company goes public. I think every public company has this. All the stuff about business risk is like standard boilerplate stuff. Every company is at risk if they don’t make profit or meet targets. Like wtf?

Even the stock price stuff - Look at the volumes, someone is screwing with them. Employees can’t sell yet anyway.

There’s accusations of "racism, sexism, and abuse" but like their youtube has women and a guy with a turban and a bunch of other races. There’s no lawsuits I could find either.

It’s like all taken out of context from SEC filings to make some sort of bullshit story.

Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by alienzx »

wholinator2 wrote: post #10

I guess i don't fully understand the distinction. So the company is going down, but the open source org is still alive. Did the company do most of the development? If they did was that development available to people using it 'for free'? Why was there a company in the first place, you'd think it would be hard to make money betting on a single open source database. My only interaction with MariaDB was picking it from…

aws doesnt pay them shit

Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by alienzx »

ergonaught wrote: post #95
kerblang wrote: post #69

Well, I was wondering: Can one guy really IPO the same product twice ? It was quite a clever stunt quitting Oracle, snagging IP on the way out, and just rinse/repeat to another $billion+ but it seemed to good to be true. I guess it was. (I am a MariaDB user, btw, so... hoping that it doesn't go completely in the toilet.)

We didn't IPO MySQL, we were acquired by Sun. We were on track for IPO, yes, but there were too many acquisition offers to bother. Monty didn't "snag IP" or perform a "clever stunt". He forked a GPL codebase the same as anyone else can do. His goal was not to do another IPO. I get that talking about things you don't actually understand is perfectly human, but Monty's about 99% great guy pretty much all the time. If y…

one thing he did wrong like losing his company multiple times? sounds like hes bad at business

Re: Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org

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Post by taskforcegemini »

alienzx wrote: post #117
ergonaught wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We didn't IPO MySQL, we were acquired by Sun. We were on track for IPO, yes, but there were too many acquisition offers to bother. Monty didn't "snag IP" or perform a "clever stunt". He forked a GPL codebase the same as anyone else can do. His goal was not to do another IPO. I get that talking about things you don't actually understand is perfectly human, but Monty's about 99% great guy pretty much all the time. If y…

one thing he did wrong like losing his company multiple times? sounds like hes bad at business

losing? afaik he sold it, getting millions out of it
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