The situation is completely different these days. Back then they were a small startup. The DB space is incredibly challenging especially because engineers tend

The situation is completely different these days. Back then they were a small startup. The DB space is incredibly challenging especially because engineers tend to want things for free and are pretty demanding. An acquisition seemed like a likely outcome. To partially offset that risk they offered source code escrow to prospective customers. Now it's an opensource project backed by Apple. And from what I can tell the team is massively different these days. I'm not sure why the obvious conclusion is "we can't trust them". I've heard this narrative from people that got burned by fdb's purchase so I'll never use it again multiple times. It's largely confusing to me, as it doesn't feel connected to the current realities.