[jhammerb]

After participating in a few of the XLDB meetups, at which the requirements for and design of SciDB were debated and discussed, I was quite excited about this project. I was kicked off of the mailing list unceremoniously once they decided they wanted to make it a business, and I haven't been allowed back on since. They're certainly abusing the term "open source" for marketing purposes here.

The reason they don't want people looking behind the curtain is that the rhetoric far exceeds the reality.