> The guys who license kdb/q probably make more money today from service/consulting agreements and not the software licenses. So it's to their benefit to go ope

> The guys who license kdb/q probably make more money today from service/consulting agreements and not the software licenses. So it's to their benefit to go open (a la MongoDB) It's a public company, so you can go check: https://www.firstderivatives.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/First-Derivatives-plc-Annual-Report-2019.pdf https://www.firstderivatives.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/... Software earns more than consulting, and the profit is better too. Just because Mongo isn't good enough to make money on its own merits doesn't mean anything. > Also, if you're building a tech stack from scratch - you want it to be "clean". You don't want to muddy it with expensive software licenses. I've been in probably a hundred funding and acquisition meetings at this point in my life, and this has literally never come up.