alt Hacker NewsOh bummer. I was really excited about pgrust but AGPL is a dealbreaker. Not for me personally, but it will never see wide adoption because it’s a banned license in most corporate environments. Lack of path to wide adoption means it’s dead in the water.
It’s weird because those who actually care about optimized pg gains are most likely large corporate customers. Why make a product targeting them and license it in such a way they’ll never use it?
This also hard blocks upstreaming any beneficial features into core Postgres.
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If it is indeed 300* faster, I'm sure more rational corporations will rethink their license policy or be left in the dust.
AGPL seems like the right choice to me. I’m tired of companies like PlanetScale taking PostgreSQL, building a business on top of it, and then acting like PostgreSQL is theirs to control.
> It’s weird because those who actually care about optimized pg gains are most likely large corporate customers. Why make a product targeting them and license it in such a way they’ll never use it?
Wait, sorry, you're asking why make something enterprise customers might pay for, and then not give it away to them for free?