I think it’s inefficient, in a market sense - for the reasons I explained above. All the source available companies we mentioned did that after they got the lif

I think it’s inefficient, in a market sense - for the reasons I explained above. All the source available companies we mentioned did that after they got the lift from the open source channel, and the lift from a competitive service. In the case of mongo, the competitor doesn’t use any of their code (making it even more of a straight competitor, meaning it might be harder to extract AWS customers for them). I think they should’ve stayed/become open source, and instead used their trademark, distribution, and terms of service to ensure a brand monopoly, a-la RHEL. You can read more about how I came to this conclusion at http://SFOSC.org http://SFOSC.org It’s absolutely their right to do. :)