#governance
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Open source survives because it can fork
A project survives not when its company thrives but when its community can't be captured. The history — MySQL, Redis, Terraform, OpenOffice — says the right to fork is the load-bearing property that keeps open source alive.
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#governance
#databases
#infrastructure
#opinion
#ai-assisted
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The other data catalog: governance, lineage, and OpenMetadata
"Catalog" means two different things in the lakehouse: the technical catalog in your query path (Unity, Polaris) and the governance catalog beside it (OpenMetadata, DataHub). The second is where lineage, ownership, and trust live — and where the next fight is.
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#lakehouse
#catalog
#governance
#databases
#infrastructure
#opinion
#ai-assisted