MariaDB CEO accuses large cloud vendors of strip-mining open source

[Kent Sharkey]

ZDNet[^]:

Michael Howard, MariaDB CEO, adds Amazon and Oracle lock in customers. He also wonders if Amazon Web Services might cripple its AWS MariaDB instances to make AWS's own DBMS, Aurora, look better.

Workin' in the code mine. Compilin' on down, down.

[Dan Neely]

And in other news Mongo DB CEO Dev Ittycheria accuses Maria DB of ripping off his companies ranting points.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

[Joe Woodbury]

Was that at the "Whiny Conference"? Still cracks me up; "Here's some free food. How dare you eat our free food!"