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I agree with you on that one also (and I see that Confluent has retracted their definition of it as OSS - it's now "source available"). I was just saying that
by EdwardDiego 4y ago
I agree with you on that one also (and I see that Confluent has retracted their definition of it as OSS - it's now "source available").
I was just saying that I can understand why they use that licence from a "just IPOed and the MBAs are hungry" POV - it ensures that they're the only managed Kafka vendor that can also provide a managed Kafka Connect / Schema Registry / KSQLdb, it's a significant point of difference in the market, because aside from that, what differentiates Confluent from AWS MSK, or Aiven, or Instaclustr, or RH's managed Kafka etc. etc. etc.