[agallego]

we trippled the team. added 3 meaningful connectors for CDC and zero-trust as well multi-lang SDK and kept 99% of the connectors available for ppl to make money on... as well as the core engine remaining MIT. This is about them not wanting to depend on redpanda products which is ok, but the whole thing is hard to believe from a company that has no open source products. it's more like "hey, i don't like it."

[12_throw_away]

I dunno ... when you see some guy from RedPanda on twitter throwing around petty "trademark compliance" [1] threats to memory-hole an entire project ... honestly, it would be malpratice _not_ to immediately fork everything.

[1] https://x.com/emaxerrno/status/1796219957589786810

[scblock]

The best part of this is "X" is such complete garbage that that post has literally zero context to someone unwilling to ever have an account on the tire fire that it is.

[demosthanos]

You also managed to be completely tone deaf to the way that developers feel about open source projects. A gradual branding transition can be swallowed, but what you chose to do instead is immediately force everyone to stop using the old name under threat of legal action. Adding new plugins that are proprietary can be tolerated, but if you're surprised that relicensing previously open source code prompted a fork you apparently weren't paying attention to the enormous kerfuffles surrounding recent relicenses by better-loved companies than yours.