Is this one of the first companies that has made the transition from business to fully open-source? If so this could set an interesting president for others to follow suite under similar circumstances.
RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
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#72I just donated. Thanks to the original RethinkDB team for your amazing efforts... I meetup with Michael Glukhovsky briefly over coffee here in SF and was immensely impressed then, and I am still immensely impressed now.
Fantastic to hear RethinkDB lives on. Long live RethinkDB. ;-)
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#73They should have stuck with AGPL.
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#74I stayed away from Rethink in the past few years due to its uncertain future. Now I'm seriously interested. Looking forward to the next chapter of RethinkDB.
I wonder if they could have closed more deals if they'd promised to do something like this. Then again, maybe the board would have balked at that as a sign of no confidence.
You generally have to move carefully to get proprietary software to an open source model. One typical customer reaction to rumors you are open sourcing is "Great! We'll wait until you do that to try it out." The result is that [already not good] sales may tank completely.
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#75Bryan Cantrill posted his thoughts on the CNCF's decision to donate RethinkDB to The Linux Foundation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13579544 We wanted to share RethinkDB's next steps in our new home with The Linux Foundation. We've also had a lot of folks ask if they can donate to support the project. Stripe has generously offered to match up to $25k in donations (which will help fund server costs and fu…
I don't have much to add, but as someone who has a lot of projects dependent on RethinkDB and also loves using it: Thank you to everyone involved!
Do you/would you use for anything other than something that needs live updates ASAP?
Re: RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
#76I just donated. Thanks to the original RethinkDB team for your amazing efforts... I meetup with Michael Glukhovsky briefly over coffee here in SF and was immensely impressed then, and I am still immensely impressed now. Fantastic to hear RethinkDB lives on. Long live RethinkDB. ;-)
The rethinkDB team are truly the best. I wouldn't hesitate to work with them in the future.
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#77Linux foundation are collecting quite a lot "failed" projects and turn them to gold these days? I sometimes feel it is acting like a software goodwill store partially. Whatever that is, hope RethinkDB will do well in the future.
Do you have some examples to point out?
Node.js and Express? Although neither seemed failed, maybe troubled at one point.
Re: RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
#78I stayed away from Rethink in the past few years due to its uncertain future. Now I'm seriously interested. Looking forward to the next chapter of RethinkDB.
I wonder if they could have closed more deals if they'd promised to do something like this. Then again, maybe the board would have balked at that as a sign of no confidence.
If the board balked, that would be a sign of not-smart investors. My investors don't have a problem with our MIT/Zlib/Apache2 Open Source database - however, then again, Tim Draper (our lead) was the original investor in Skype way back in the day, so he is way ahead the curve than most (dare I say on HN, even YC).
That is why it is really important to have only the best and smartest VCs on board. Edit: Don't give equity up in your company unless your vision aligns with your investors and they can do more than just fund you.
Re: RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
#79Bryan Cantrill posted his thoughts on the CNCF's decision to donate RethinkDB to The Linux Foundation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13579544 We wanted to share RethinkDB's next steps in our new home with The Linux Foundation. We've also had a lot of folks ask if they can donate to support the project. Stripe has generously offered to match up to $25k in donations (which will help fund server costs and fu…
Mike and Slava, you guys are so great! You've worked overtime to secure social confidence in RethinkDB for others when the engineering talent alone was good enough. You guys are so admirable and hard workers and such a good role model to others.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have some examples to point out?
Node.js and Express? Although neither seemed failed, maybe troubled at one point.
I think the NodeJS Foundation (https://nodejs.org/en/) and project are really successful and putting them under the auspices of the LF helped resolve a lot of community issues (including the io.js fork): https://nodesource.com/node-by-numbers
I'm not familiar enough with Express to comment on it.