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Because going public is the only way for most shareholders (including most employees) to sell shares. Don’t ask me why startups are designed this way. It’s dumb.
I had no idea Mariadb was a startup. I thought it was an open source fork if mysql
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I had no idea Mariadb was a startup. I thought it was an open source fork if mysql
MySQL is named after the founder’s daughter—My ( pronounced me by the way ). He sold it to Oracle and then, because it was Open Source, he forked it to create MariaDB. The name of his other daughter is Maria.
We need a better mechanism for companies to go public. The traditional IPO is a ripoff and SPACS are scams. It's great that companies like MariaDB are able to raise money in public markets, though.
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We need a better mechanism than going public. That only leads to the inevitable next-quarter-itis that has taken down once great companies like HP and Bell Labs.
We need a law that says that CEOs and C-suite writ large and board members can't receive stock/options/RSU. Otherwise, we'll always be stuck in Goodhart's law. Maybe they make enough already and don't need bonuses. The "bonus" is keeping your job not getting a golden parachute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
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MySQL is named after the founder’s daughter—My ( pronounced me by the way ). He sold it to Oracle and then, because it was Open Source, he forked it to create MariaDB. The name of his other daughter is Maria.
It's not pronounced Me, it's not English. But let's excuse your americanism.
> MariaDB's eponymously named open-source software ... I'm sure they meant 'eponymous open-sourced', as named is implicit in the meaning of that word, but I'm less confident whether an eponym can be granted based on a familial naming attribution? A few years ago I had a weird exchange with someone on these forums who enlightened me about the maxscale licence change, and identified this as a key turning point (not in…
> MariaDB's eponymously named open-source software ... I'm sure they meant 'eponymous open-sourced', as named is implicit in the meaning of that word, but I'm less confident whether an eponym can be granted based on a familial naming attribution? A few years ago I had a weird exchange with someone on these forums who enlightened me about the maxscale licence change, and identified this as a key turning point (not in…
They’re saying the database has the same name as the company, not anything to do with the familial naming connection.
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Because going public is the only way for most shareholders (including most employees) to sell shares. Don’t ask me why startups are designed this way. It’s dumb.
I had no idea Mariadb was a startup. I thought it was an open source fork if mysql