[purpleblue]

Meh. It's obvious Confluent exploited the status of being an Apache open source project in order to say they were open-source. But look at the make up of the PMC of Kafka and it's completely dominated by Confluent employees or former employees. Nothing gets done without Confluent's approval or best interest at heart.

[EdwardDiego]

Well, they did write most of it, and the PMC composition is changing.

> Nothing gets done without Confluent's approval or best interest at heart.

I disagree. This explicitly competes against the tiered storage in Confluent's enterprisey Kafka flavour: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-405%3A...

[uberduper]

True. I wasn't trying to suggest there wasn't a bias here or minimize Confluent's involvement in the project.