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This has the potential to backfire spectacularly. If anyone is able to abide by this license and offer mongodb as a service, they will dramatically lower the ba
by polyomino 8y ago
This has the potential to backfire spectacularly. If anyone is able to abide by this license and offer mongodb as a service, they will dramatically lower the barrier to entry for mongodb hosting.
Mongo is betting that their service is uncommodifiable.
Perhaps they want to get out of the hosting game altogether, make their money consulting. In that case they’d have made a very competitive hosting market to drive down prices and spur adoption.
- nbsd4life 8y agoit can't backfire too bad, if it does they'll change the license again.
- polyomino 8y agoI think if they change the license back, the damage would already have been done. Competitors would have access to a competitive mongodb service stack.
- gowld 8y agoWhy would a competitor be better at hosting mongodb than mongodb company itself?
- bad_user 8y agoBecause it can be cheaper.