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by arrayThrowaway 2619 days ago
The founders of Kx (Arthur Whitney and Janet Lustgarten) sold their stakes in the company to First Derivatives plc and have now founded Shakti. Kdb+ is still sold by Kx. Shakti seems to be a successor system to kdb+.

As for you second question, how would brandelf change the binary (disclaimer: not a BSD user)?