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The Economics of RedPandling
Kafka is obviously open source. I'm just curious why you chose the BSL license, like how did this play a role in the economics and the business model of RedPandling? So for those new and licensing, BSL turns into Apache 2 on a roll in four year window. It means the code today in four years from today is going to be Apache 2. And so that's one. The second clause that is interesting is that for us, frankly, we didn't want the hyper clouds and the most dominant cloud in the world to take our work and then make money.