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Peter Zaitsev
Personal blog · peterzaitsev.combusinessstartups
Peter Zaitsev's personal blog at peterzaitsev.com covers business and startups. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Peter Zaitsev's blog for his views on open source licensing and what counts as open source, such as his open-source perspectives post cited in a Redis licence discussion.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Peter Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona and a range of open source startups. Peter is a co-author of High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication, one of the most popular books on MySQL performance.
What Hacker News says?
I think one thing Andy misses about why people were pissed about Elastic and Redis but not as many for MongoDB and some other is their license and size of Contributors Community. When original license is as restricted as AGPL it is unlikely there is much of embedded use... so less people are impacted in truly catastrophic way Also if there is no contributor community to speak of... who is going to do the fork ? I pu…
Comment linking /thoughts-on-scylladb-license-change/
on “Databases in 2024: A Year in Review”Submitted How come not everyone is an Angel Investor? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSSPL protects vendors from competition of likes of Amazon, cool, but is this what Open Source is about ? I belive first and foremost Open Source (term) is first and foremost about value for Users of Open Source Software. As a vendor/developer you surely can chose not to provide software users some freedoms, but when lets not call it Open Source More in this https://peterzaitsev.com/open-source-perspectives/
Comment linking /open-source-perspectives/
on “Redis Renamed to Redict”Submitted Typical Mistakes in Open Source Sales as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted There Are Three Open Source Communities, Not Just One as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on Risk Avoidance, Pretence and Silicon Valley Bank Failure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Class Actions as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
