<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> I figured upstreaming would either blow up in my face or get me a really good relationship with them.</p><p>My mental calculus was that they're a tiny company (like two dozen people or so), I'm a very happy customer showing off their product all the time on my birdsite (at the time), and paying them several thousand dollars a year in support contract fees on top of the... probably around $20K? initial outlay for the seat over the years of upgrades.</p><p>And I'm offering to nearly double the speed of their product and not even asking for anything in return.</p><p>While they would be legally within their rights to sue me for breach of contract, actually doing so would be monumentally stupid.</p><p>So I decided to take the risk and tell them about it.</p>
