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Open Source is not a business model there are many business models around Open Source. I think saying MongoDB is struggling (or was ever) is trusting their PR

Open Source is not a business model there are many business models around Open Source. I think saying MongoDB is struggling (or was ever) is trusting their PR too much. MongoDB as typical Public company is focused on maximizing their shareholder value and they were Open Source only until it served that goal...

bigiain 5y ago
> I think saying MongoDB is struggling (or was ever) is trusting their PR too much. Their licence change to the non OSI approved SSPL suggests strongly that they were struggling with the challenges of Amazon/IBM/Scalegrid et al. being permitted by the AGLP3 license to package up and sell MongoDB as a service without contributing anything back. I make that claim purely on their actions not their PR. (And I never claimed "MongoDB is struggling" without qualifications of a specific area I see them struggling with. I never intended to suggest that "MongoDB as a public company is struggling".)