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Yes, I've been using Vector since very early on, long before Datadog acquired it, and Datadog have continued ongoing maintenance and feature additions at a slow-but-steady pace, which I think is good. Like Quickwit, Vector is very stable and already quite complete. So I'm not too unhappy.

But Vector is something that complements Datadog's offering very well, so I think that makes sense for them to be good stewards of it. Quickwit is something that somewhat actively competes against them, which is a big difference. I suspect that unlike Vector, Quickwit is probably going to stop seeing any development in pretty short order, unless the devs now can consciously go out of their way to dedicate extra hours to it.

To be clear, I think that the relicense is great, and I think it's very possible that Quickwit will be picked up/forked by someone and maintenance will continue, because it's very good, and I'd really love to see someone do metrics for it as well. So, I'm not all gloomy or anything like that.