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by scosman 254 days ago
They tried something hard and it didn’t work out. In the process they did some great work. Plus they gave it all away for free, allowing literally anyone in the world to continue the work. They are awesome.

If the rest of us criticized people making open source like you do, there wouldn’t be any.
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OutOfHere 254 days ago
That's not how open source adoption works. For open source to get used, people have to trust that it will be maintained. The people behind Kuzu ruined any trust in them. This is also why people prefer established choices over the fashion of the day.
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scosman 254 days ago
No that's exactly how open source works. They are under zero obligation to wake up tomorrow and continue to work on it. Everyone is lucky they open sourced it, and anyone else is welcome to pick it up where they left off. Contributing a impressive piece of work the community is an accomplishment.

Disparaging them and suggesting people should not trust them in the future for not providing ongoing maintenance, when that was never part of the OSS deal, shows a misunderstanding of what OSS is. Pay them for a maintenance contract, or don't expect maintenance. Stop complaining they didn't fulfill some social contract that existed only in your head.

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OutOfHere 253 days ago
It's not necessary to think of it as a social contract, and I never said there was one. Your imagining it doesn't make it so.

It merely is one of several predictors of whether something is sufficiently reliable for use. In the case of Kuzu, its authors have demonstrated that they're not to be trusted.

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