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You can point at Amazon all you like, but this isn’t Open Source or Free Software. If you want to prevent others from using your “hard work”, then go with a pr

You can point at Amazon all you like, but this isn’t Open Source or Free Software. If you want to prevent others from using your “hard work”, then go with a proprietary license, but don’t pretend your proprietary license is FOSS because that’s hypocritical and many of us care about the guaranteed freedoms of FOSS, including making money off of other people’s hard work. MongoDB is trying to eat their cake and have it too and I have no sympathy for that. New versions of MongoDB are no longer Open Source and that should be known, because it won in the marketplace by being FOSS and now is the time to consider alternatives.

tluyben2 8y ago
This is what it is all about; you believe in software to be free in a RMS kind of way or it is just a marketing gimmick. If you want software to be free, you do not care what Amazon does with it. That is clearly not MongoDB. They used FOSS as marketing tool and timed it well (it was a horrible shitshow of a product but many drank the koolaid; no idea what it is now, I will never touch it again) and now have to please investors. That is fine but let us not put this on ‘the big corporates’ please.
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