I think the first time I actually heard a SPAC be mentioned was when the MariaDB situation happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34070451 https://news.

I think the first time I actually heard a SPAC be mentioned was when the MariaDB situation happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34070451 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34070451 It was quite unfortunate to hear, because having a company related to the RDBMS project seemed like a nice thing and it lent credibility to MariaDB appearing like a stable and viable supported alternative to MySQL. I mean, PostgreSQL exists, sure, but it's always nice to have to have other options and alternatives (modern MySQL/MariaDB are both passable for many use cases).