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Amazon taking more open source and selling it with no value created for the developers. Maybe Kafka should switch to the SSPL [0]. [0] - https://www.mongodb.co
by hendzen 8y ago
Amazon taking more open source and selling it with no value created for the developers. Maybe Kafka should switch to the SSPL [0].
[0] - https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license
- t0mbstone 8y agoI would argue that making Kafka more approachable and easy to deploy and use out of box is creating value for the developers, because it helps increase potential user adoption (and therefore increases the potential open source contributor base)
- zedpm 8y agoI agree. We started using Redis with AWS' managed offering (Elasticache), then migrated to running it on our own once we were comfortable with it. I can imagine the same path for Kafka use.
- ijung 8y agooperations could be headaches tho. I always think AWS as seperate operation contracto teams for running large scale distributed softwares
- kevin_b_er 8y agoThen you couldn't run it on Linux, as you'd be unable to relicense the storage system that is the kernel file system or storage drivers from GPL to SSPL.
- manigandham 8y agoOpen-source software is free, that's the point. If you wanted to make money with it then don't make it open-source. This entitlement is just silly. Many vendors make money by selling services on top, and there are at least a dozen that offer managed Kafka right now.