News: "Our initial plan was to acquire the intellectual property left over from the RethinkDB company, enabling us to relicense the code and use the name RethinkDB. After aggressively pursuing this plan since the company shut down in September, little progress has been made." Dang.
The investors should get an automatic tax benefit for releasing the IP into the public domain. There are great companies that you've never heard of that die every day and nothing ever happens to their IP. It's a massive economic waste.
Great to see RethinkDB as a project is pushing forward. My concern is about product and code quality with the core founders and engineers leaving for Stripe. I'm sure the open source contributors are great, but do we really think they will do as fantastic of a job as coffeemug, mglukhovsky, and danielmewes? Especially now, since the financial motivations are essentially removed.
I'm worried about this being posted on Google Docs. What happens when Google Docs gets shut down or migrated into some sort of other service and this document is not migrated? This sort of thing should be on a mailing list, methinks.