Percona Live ONLINE Opening Keynote: State of Open Source Databases by Peter Zaitsev (opens in new tab)

Peter Zaitsev is CEO and co-founder of Percona. He opened Percona Live ONLINE with a keynote which took a look at the historical foundations of open source software and how they have shaped the field today. The history of open source software In the early days of computing, software and hardware were bundled together. While the term open source wasn’t coined, software was open by default. According to Peter: “One of the big reasons for that was copyrights on software was not a thing, because ...