The big news here: Citus Data donated 1% of their equity to non-profit PostgreSQL organizations[1] so this acquisition is a win for the community even in the da

The big news here: Citus Data donated 1% of their equity to non-profit PostgreSQL organizations[1] so this acquisition is a win for the community even in the darkest scenario of Citus Data disappearing into a canyon on the Microsoft campus. Given Microsoft's change in operation over recent years there's also hope that they can continue their contributions into the future. It's fascinating to see Microsoft leave behind the "embrace, extend, extinguish" narrative only to have Amazon adopt it, causing massive rifts and action within the database community[2][3]. I am genuinely concerned about the future of open source software in this continued scenario. An article with what I considered an outrageous headline ("Is Amazon 'strip mining' open source?"[4]) has only rung more true over time. Amazon is one of the largest companies on earth, selling products that they receive for free but never improve[5], attacking the primary open source provider, and then shift toward their comparable proprietary closed offerings. Hopefully new ways to "give back", such as equity contribution, can be one of the many paths forward needed to keep open source software healthy. Given how much innovation is unlocked by this, it'd be a crime to go back to the past era. [1]: https://www.citusdata.com/newsroom/press/citus-data-donates-1-percent-equity-to-non-profit-postgresql-organizations/ https://www.citusdata.com/newsroom/press/citus-data-donates-... [2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/30/aws-is-competing-with-its-customers.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/30/aws-is-competing-with-its-cu... [3]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/aws-gives-open-source-the-middle-finger/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/aws-gives-open-source-the-... [4]: https://www.cbronline.com/analysis/aws-managed-kafka https://www.cbronline.com/analysis/aws-managed-kafka [5]: From [2], "Jay Kreps, a creator of Kafka and co-founder and CEO of Confluent ... said Amazon has not contributed a single line of code to the Apache Kafka open-source software and is not reselling Confluent’s cloud tool."