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If people accept that what MongoDB did with its license is acceptable because the OSS model failed for them, then the viability and future of the OSS model migh
by DangitBobby 7y ago
If people accept that what MongoDB did with its license is acceptable because the OSS model failed for them, then the viability and future of the OSS model might come into question.
People tend to come to believe something organically and then later cherry-pick facts and observations that back those beliefs up. So even if MongoDB did what it had to do, or did what would otherwise be morally defensible in the most popular moral frameworks (as I personally believe to be the case), people who have a personal or emotional stake in the future of OSS will be looking outwardly for a villain. If it failed, it must be a failure of someone who crossed OSS. MongoDB seems the only choice for a villain in that regard.
- nevi-me 7y agoI agree with your statement. Rationally, MongoDB's decision made sense because of the real actual threat of AWS and others offering alternatives (at various levels of baking) that seek to undermine MongoDB. If this is the path that we choose to take, we'll see more companies go back to the closed source model (which MongoDB hasn't gone in).