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~~How is it different from when Apple acquired the then-open-source FoundationDB (and shut down public access)? They could have just kept it open source back th
by pritambaral 9y ago
~~How is it different from when Apple acquired the then-open-source FoundationDB (and shut down public access)? They could have just kept it open source back then.~~
EDIT: My bad, looks like FoundationDB wasn't fully open-source back then.
- djrogers 9y agoFrom what I recall (and based on some quick retro-googling) I don't believe Foudnation was open-source. One of the complaints about it on HN back in the day was that it was closed...
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- piva00 9y agoYou are correct, FoundationDB was free but never OSS. You can even check the comments on the HN thread [1] when they removed the downloads. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259986 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259986