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FWIW - Redpanda open sources their core product - https://github.com/redpanda-data/ while WarpStream keeps their core product proprietary - https://github.com/warpstreamlabs

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Unfortunately, neither are Open Source Software. The BSL is not FOSS. They're both proprietary.

Yea - I get that argument but these days it's just hard to do infra as true FOSS with the hyperscalers and current cloud economics. There is a community license and and the code is visible. Not saying it's ideal but Redpanda is further into the open source world than WarpStream.

Not really? I'm not a stickler on the term "open source" but they're both proprietary at the end of the day. It's a weird nit to pick. Why even bring it up at all, unless you're desperate to defend Redpanda?

I can see the source code of Unreal Engine too. Does that make them "further into the open source world" than WarpStream too?

I don't have a horse in this particular race but WarpStream's blog post is a lot more charitable towards the project in question, and the open source world in general, than Redpanda's.

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