If I had a million dollars I’d start a company that sets up and manages federated software like Mastodon and Peertube.
I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.
If I had a million dollars I’d start a company that sets up and manages federated software like Mastodon and Peertube.
BRB, etching all my MP3s into clay tablets
True, and I keep those folks in my prayers.
But if you’re on MySQL it’s a lot less of a lift to switch to MariaDB than it is to go to Postgres, even if Postgres is better in some ways.
Oracle is such a terrible company for their customers it makes a ton of sense to try to get them to switch to a less abusive company
MariaDB tried to go public a while back and their stock price tanked immediately and never recovered. If they hadn’t gotten acquired I imagine they’d have gone out of business.
MariaDB.com is separate from MariaDB.org that does the development, so it shouldn’t be too bad.
Then again, the folks working at MariaDB.com might have a different opinion.
There were so many web apps written in the early 00s on the LAMP stack, including Facebook. And that’s not counting the tiny internal applications that so many businesses have that use MySQL/MariaDB. Because these are business critical applications, they pay Oracle/MariaDB for support.
MariaDB is actually two separate entities: The company MariaDB and the MariaDB organization. The company sells enterprise licenses and support, and the organization manages the actual development. So there’s a little separation that will at least slow the enshittification.
Looks more like a great awk than a penguin
Obligatory “Fuck Ajit Pai”
And jazz music.
And waltzing.
And books.