Kudos for going hard core into safety, error checking and designing from first principles. How do you plan on making money from all of your work, given this is an open source product?
I think there's an assumption (that I used to have) that open source is somehow inversely related to business model.
However, before TigerBeetle was founded, I came around to the understanding that, in fact, "open source and business model are orthogonal".
What I mean by this is that startups might say that open source is too expensive (who will manage it for them?) and that enterprise might say that open source is too cheap (who will scale and support it and connect it to all their other systems for them?).
So the business model is what solves both these problems: providing a valuable product around the open source that serves a real need, honorably at a profit, that customers want to pay for, because the alternative is either too expensive or too cheap.
