The only hostility is because people are trying to continue to push MongoDB as Open Source. It's fine for MongoDB to be proprietary, lots of good software is pr

The only hostility is because people are trying to continue to push MongoDB as Open Source. It's fine for MongoDB to be proprietary, lots of good software is proprietary. It's just not Open Source. To your baker analogy, I don't have any objection to a baker withholding their recipe. But if a bunch of bakers want to share recipes, and they form a special supermarket where only these recipe-included products will be sold, why is it considered hostility for them to exclude a product that doesn't make its recipe freely available? Nobody's being mean to MongoDB. Even with Homebrew, MongoDB can still distribute its own source. It's just that MonboDB doesn't belong in the same store aisle that they used to be in. People are only getting ticked that MongoDB is trying to position itself as some kind of open source savior, that its advocating that MongoDB should still be allowed into the recipe-included bakery chain, even though it's not following the same rules. If I run a vegan bakery and I don't include sausages, that's not me being mean to the meat industry. If I run an Open Source repository and I don't include proprietary software, then what part of that is hostile?