Reinventing Kafka on object storage (Interview)

3799.804 - 3831.583 Ryan Worrell

Yeah. So we had a lot of back and forth initially when we were thinking about this specific issue. The conclusion that we came to is that in order to be successful commercially, we cannot release our product as open source. And we did not want to pull the kind of bait and switch intellectual dishonesty move of the way a lot of commercial open source projects have evolved in the last decade.