Personally, the most infuriating thing about a tool is where I can fix the damn thing given the source code but I have to go through the support staff to the engineering team and then wait for "this is on our roadmap but not something we're currently prioritizing". Right, I know. I don't expect other people to do work for me. I just need them to let me do the work myself.
The massive advantage of the OSS route isn't that you can ask the community to build a tool for you; it's that when you inevitably have a corner case or some behaviour you want to encode, you can just make RenesPostgres connector and copy in the Postgres connector and fix it.
I don't understand why anyone keeps their source all closed. Even one of those "you can't release this but you can edit it" licenses is better.
Half of why I use Kong as an API Gateway is that I can just edit the source code of their plugins. Thank fuck for that.
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Personally, the most infuriating thing about a tool is where I can fix the damn thing given the source code but I have to go through the support staff to the engineering team and then wait for "this is on our roadmap but not something we're currently prioritizing". Right, I know. I don't expect other people to do work for me. I just need them to let me do the work myself.
The massive advantage of the OSS route isn't that you can ask the community to build a tool for you; it's that when you inevitably have a corner case or some behaviour you want to encode, you can just make RenesPostgres connector and copy in the Postgres connector and fix it.
I don't understand why anyone keeps their source all closed. Even one of those "you can't release this but you can edit it" licenses is better.
Half of why I use Kong as an API Gateway is that I can just edit the source code of their plugins. Thank fuck for that.