PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small airplane crash

Re:PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small air... by fieldcny on Friday March 29, 2024 @08:47AM (#39863422)

Who cares if they do that? Do you see Torvalds and co running around crying because the entire world runs on Linux Kernels?

I would love nothing more than for a project I built or contributed to wound up as an AWS service.

Writing the code is just part of the value, running it is also very difficult. Especially as the use increases and expose new code paths and bugs and what not.

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Re:PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small air... by xcrunner529 on Friday March 29, 2024 @08:58AM (#39863541)

I think if a big company or two decided to lead development and charge for their Linux Linux kernels he’d have an issue as his influence etc would change. Also he is lucky in that he doesn’t have to care about the making money part. Companies have that issue.

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Re:PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small air... by rmbyrro on Friday March 29, 2024 @09:14AM (#39863719)

Companies can make plenty of money.

What they can't - without giving the middle finger to OSS - is satisfy greed.

If you want to satisfy greed, fine, but be like Oracle. Sell a commercial license upfront. Don't pretend to be OSS.

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Re:PostgreSQL maintainer Simon Riggs has died in a small air... by xcrunner529 on Friday March 29, 2024 @05:56PM (#39869437)

Well I’m not sure if it’s just greed at the level at Amazon, Microsoft etc packaging your work and take all the support money from their vast influence.

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