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In my experience, corporate lawyers don't really understand the distinction and will opt for the route of least risk, which generally entails a commercial relat
by halbritt 6y ago
In my experience, corporate lawyers don't really understand the distinction and will opt for the route of least risk, which generally entails a commercial relationship with the company. Unfortunately, neither Mongo nor Elastic really offer useful commercial relationships. That is, pay them a sum and be free to use the widely adopted open-source version of their thing.
The overhead to those relationships for what they do offer is significant.
- freeone3000 6y agoMongo absolutely offers this. A company I worked for had a contract with them -- these terms are hugely expensive, to the point it was worth switching to the AWS version when we had no AWS services.
- halbritt 6y agoMongo offers what? A license to use their software and have them not harass me or attempt to upsell me or force me to use their management tooling? Nah.
- bigiain 6y ago> and will opt for the route of least risk, which generally entails Choosing something else - at least if you can do it before getting locked in.
- halbritt 6y agoAgain, very minor use case. Not worth expending effort on. I attempted to convince the lawyers that we should just yolo it because the product had no actual revenue. Didn't go well.
- bigiain 6y agoI can get at least a couple of person-weeks worth of dev done for the cost of sending the email that results in attempting to convince the lawyers of _anything_. I wouldn't even ask for a legal review of this new Elastic License, if I thought I could tear it out for less than 2 dev-months of effort.
- halbritt 6y agoWell, what, then? SOLR?
- ensignavenger 6y agoAmazon's Open Distro for ElasticSearch is still an open source fork of Elastic Search, so ironically Amazon may be the saviors of Open Source Elastic Search.
- halbritt 6y agoExcellent point.