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> Since Crunchy Data was sold, I have been maintaining pgBackRest and looking for a position that would allow me to continue the work, but so far I have not been successful. Likewise, my efforts to secure sponsorship have also fallen far short of what I need to make the project viable.

So this was the problem, I thought Snowflake would pick up the sponsorship of this project but since it is a competing database it doesn't really make much sense.

I really wish many critical OSS projects get the sponsorship they need to continue.

Otherwise the software industry is in real trouble.

Forking it just passes the buck onto another maintainer with the same problem, this time without the original creator maintaining it.

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Very simple. Name it to pgbackrest-AI and add the line:

"AI driven backups with smartest world class models optimizing every byte stored via deep AI analysis."

With that added, a million dollars is just chimp change. YC alone would be adding them to all the seasons multiple times over summer, winter and monsoon etc.

Even with sponsorship, it's not always appreciated such as Vercel backing Svelte, Vue, etc. https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/1g4lu5p/am_i_seein...

The responses in there are dumb and childish.

I doubt that they have sponsored an OSS project or made it sustainable.

Postgres doesn't compete with Snowflake. Snowflake recently announced a Postgres DBaaS offering that integrates with Snowflake (actually has competitive pricing with AWS RDS Postgres)

They're two non competing verticals. It's a shame Snowflake decided to shrink Crunchy Data's community presence.