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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 22:51:59 +0100
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On Fri, 14 Feb 2025, rbowman wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:43:37 +0100, D wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 13 Feb 2025, rbowman wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 22:10:25 +0100, D wrote:
>>>
>>>> There are good examples I think we could learn from. SQlite and
>>>> Postgres come to mind as software projects that have been quite solid.
>>>
>>> https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/27/
>>> microsoft_builds_open_source_document/
>>>
>>> Strange bedfellows.
>>>
>>>
>> Strange. I don't like it! Will their tentacles destroy the project?
>
> I don't think so although their choice of Postgres rather than SQL Server
> is interesting. The target seems to be MongoDB. If you want to get
> paranoid MongoDB is funded in part by In-Q-Tel.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

Haha, just an admission of how shitty their own products are. Just like 
Azure, I'm sure (pun intended) is built on linux, and their ship of 
theseus project with WSL. =D