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Because the VPE sounds like the corporate sort of person who would not prioritize the things I'd want them to as a customer.



That kinda hurts.

There are 100k's of happy InfluxDB users -- untold millions of completely open source Telegraf deployments doing meaningful work for people -- integrated into our products and our competitors' products. We make the vast majority of our codebase public under liberal OSS licenses.

And we'll keep listening and learning how to do more.

... off to see if I can change my internal slack handle to @corporatetool. Unless there's a policy against that ;-)


Hey, yeah, sorry, I've been meaning all day to go back and fix that. Really wasn't right.

Just struck a nerve that reminded me of some leaders at a previous gig who made things a little less sensible.

I apologise, and you definitely don't deserve it :-(


I don't think anybody who knows Ryan would describe him as "the corporate sort of person" :)

He was giving you an honest assessment of what was going on, not sugar-coated or wrapped in corporate speak. The work he described on our SaaS offering was directly tied to what our current and potential customers wanted.


Your issue is that they are prioritizing paying customers over giving you a free product.

I don't think that's fair given they are still a startup.




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