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At least one reference on here from 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16878786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16878786 And here's a news story
by tanepiper 3y ago
At least one reference on here from 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16878786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16878786
And here's a news story - https://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/03/25/a-cautionary-open-source-tale-apple-buys-and-shutters-foundationdb/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/03/25/a-cautionar...
- endisneigh 3y agoIt was never open source before apple. Rather the binary was freely available to be used. When apple bought them they took it away but continued to support customers with contracts. In that way it was inaccessible until it was open sourced.
- metadat 3y agoYes, I got bitten by this and will never forget- FDB abruptly shut off public access in mid-2015. Fortunately for me, it only cost half a day to migrate my system to Postgres.
- detaro 3y ago... which both state that it wasnt open-source before the apple buyout.