[jauntywundrkind]

Most critical to me seems to be the integration relicensing/de-open-sourcing (and the article seems generally to feel the same),

> Started relicensing some of the most critical integrations and connectors as proprietary2 under a completely different license

But left unsaid is which integrations got relicensed. I'm very curious to know!

Ok, from the Redpanda announcement, seems to be Splunk & Snowflake connectors that they have moved to enterprise plan features. I'm not sure this is exhaustive but I tend to think it is. Source: https://redpanda.com/blog/redpanda-connect

It does make me wonder & think, perhaps there's too monolithic an architecture if moving two connectors out of core & having bentho-snowflake and bentho-splunk forked off is too hard. Does the entire project really need a fork?

[jeffail]

It absolutely doesn't need a fork. The entire project is designed specifically to allow vendors and users to have their own ecosystem of plugins and they can all compile and integrate seamlessly. I'll be explaining live in 30 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8nVdUuWZ80

[cbsmith]

Yeah, trying to decide if this is a fight between two companies or a real thing.

[captcanuk]

This seems to be the case. You have warpstream who is a former sponsor of Benthos and integrated their product DEEPLY now feeling left out when they talk about things happening in 12 hours and imagine what else could happen in more time; I'd imagine a purchase like this is months in the making. They wrote this blog post that reads like a scorned ex-lover and ends with we did it because you made us.

Over on X, you have the CEO of Confluent writing 18 tweets trying to stay relevant and throw shade at his two competitors drinking his milkshake. I like how he snuck in "Kafka will continue to be the default standard and reference implementation" in that stream of thought.