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So now it's just a matter of Oracle buying EDB? Does EDB have a poison pill clause and/or are the contracts of the core team free from non-competes and non-disc

by eecc 6y ago

So now it's just a matter of Oracle buying EDB? Does EDB have a poison pill clause and/or are the contracts of the core team free from non-competes and non-disclosures?

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justinclift 6y ago
If Oracle did buy EDB, then attempt to meaningfully screw the PG Community... ... then the PG Community would very likely fork to a new group of people and continue on growing just fine. See OpenOffice -> LibreOffice, Hudson -> Jenkins, (etc)
- dragonwriter 6y ago
  And it would suck if non-competes locked the former EDB people out for a while, and it would take some reconstituting of governance, but it looks like a huge portion of contributions are outside of EDB even with the acquisition) so I suspect it would be rough patch that the community would weather, not an existential threat. MySQL’s licensing model gave MySQL AB (and thus it's purchasers) a privileged role that no one has with regard to Postgres. And even there, MariaDB is a thing...