AWS Acquires DuckLabs

Congrats!

Insane!!!!

Wow, that sucks balls.

I see a site like https://ducklabs.com/ and it's clear I'm waaaay over thinking my website.

I guess this will be a good test of the open source model DuckDB has opted into.

As I understand it, DuckDB is MIT-licensed and governance is provided by a separate, non-profit DuckDB foundation. This was done explicitly to prevent BSL-ification.

I'm very curious to see whether that approach holds the line. I wouldn't bet on it, but one can hope?

Please No No No why.....

This is awful news.

such a disappointing outcome

I said "Oh shit !" out loud in a meeting.

We just can't have nice things, can we?

On one hand I am glad that (hopefully) some people were rewarded for their hard work.

On the other hand, do we have to live in an oligarchy?

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I'm glad I stuck with SQLite. Governance is an important part of any open source project. SQLite has kept things narrow and focused, while DuckDB's philosophy is to do more and more, making it a general-purpose data science tool. I am old-fashioned in that I believe in the philosophy that software should "do one thing and do it well"