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It's more like building a neighborhood from scratch, taking care of it for fifteen years, and then seeing the ones you handed it over to being bought by the one
by stse 17y ago
It's more like building a neighborhood from scratch, taking care of it for fifteen years, and then seeing the ones you handed it over to being bought by the ones who owns the rest of the city.
I don't get where people get this strange attitude from. Like you're more of a "sellout" when you build a company over time, with an open source product and don't want to be controlled by your competitor. Than if you, like most startups today, build a proprietary product with the intention of selling to you biggest competitor as soon as possible.
- wendroid 17y ago> taking care of it for fifteen years, and then seeing the ones you handed it over to sold to, for a hefty sum and then quit as caretaker > being bought by the ones who owns the rest of the city. because the city went bust and needed the money
- wheels 17y agoMySQL AB was a venture backed startup that raised $40m in funding, not some random open source hippies that got tricked into giving away the crown jewels. The company was built to sell or IPO. And see, I don't expect Montey to like this, but I do wish he'd shut up about it. He's not the right person to be leading this call. My take on this doesn't have anything to do with it being OSS or not; it'd seem like sour grapes if any founder who sold his company and left was trying to incite governments towards legal action against his acquiring company at a time when they're otherwise pretty much hosed.