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title: "💭 Open source, not open contribution with Ben Johnson (Changelog..."
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Ben Johnson was on the Changelog a few years back covering his work on litestream, and talks about why he chose to go open source, but not open contribution.

> You should have a good reason to move off of sqlite.

!!! note

    This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">thought</a>. It's a short note that I make
    about someone else's content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count=2 data-reading-time=3 data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a>