`It's the first guy to publicly say "the emperor is naked"'
That MySQL has a poor optimizer has been known for as long as MySQL has been a product. The product is legendary for its inability to do even basic RDBMS needs competently, and the rise of NoSQL was largely people assuming MySQL limitations were general RDBMS problems (for instance its painful incompetence doing basic RDBMS tasks like joins).
Having said that, a couple of decades in this industry has me reading this post and immediately sensing oozing bitterness. That maybe he got passed over for a promotion he felt he earned, etc.
When someone does the "it's all crap" exit, it's seldom from a good place. Who could seriously have applied to and joined the MySQL team without knowing that it isn't exactly the pinnacle of database systems?
Having said all of that, it's interesting seeing pgsql being held as the panacea. I like pgsql, and prefer it among open source database systems, but in many ways it is a decade+ behind MSSQL and Oracle.
I understand the intent of the GPL, and the reasoning behind its creation. I'm not arguing about that. It isn't accidental that I am arguing around that point.
I'm talking specifically about the notion of people making money off of open source -- whether BSD, GPL, etc. You cannot possibly make a penny off of what is freely and openly available. It's economic market value is $0.00. It's human value is considerable, but again the market value is $0.
This is lost on all of these sour grapes "wah, they're stealing" arguments.
The argument of big tech "exploiting" or stealing has always rang untrue to me.
If Microsoft took the source code to Nano and made a Nano+ that reads word files or something, closed-source, selling it for big bucks, etc, the value of what they're offering cannot possibly be more than the delta from what is freely and openly available. They didn't make the original any less available, and a user is only possibly going to pay if the features are different enough to merit the cost over the freely available version. Similarly, if Amazon has a product based on an open source product, what they charge can only possibly be for the values that they've brought to it. They haven't stolen anything.
A lot of GPL advocacy seems to be based in sour grapes and it's offputting.
That MySQL has a poor optimizer has been known for as long as MySQL has been a product. The product is legendary for its inability to do even basic RDBMS needs competently, and the rise of NoSQL was largely people assuming MySQL limitations were general RDBMS problems (for instance its painful incompetence doing basic RDBMS tasks like joins).
Having said that, a couple of decades in this industry has me reading this post and immediately sensing oozing bitterness. That maybe he got passed over for a promotion he felt he earned, etc.
When someone does the "it's all crap" exit, it's seldom from a good place. Who could seriously have applied to and joined the MySQL team without knowing that it isn't exactly the pinnacle of database systems?
Having said all of that, it's interesting seeing pgsql being held as the panacea. I like pgsql, and prefer it among open source database systems, but in many ways it is a decade+ behind MSSQL and Oracle.