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It puts you in bed with a community where you're too locked in. If there's only one provider that's allowed to sell an online SaaS-based version of the software
by rpdillon 1y ago
It puts you in bed with a community where you're too locked in. If there's only one provider that's allowed to sell an online SaaS-based version of the software, then if they do a poor job of hosting it, or don't host it in a configuration that suits my needs, I literally have no choice.
I've written about this in other comments, but this happened to me in 2015 hosting Elasticsearch and the official Elasticsearch hosting offering just didn't support CPU configurations that were proper for geohashing heavy workloads. I had to switch to AWS to get that. They even talked to the head of sales, and they said, yeah, we're working on it, but right now your best bet is to switch. Under a license like this, that wouldn't be possible.
- pastel8739 1y agoYou can host it yourself, right?
- gr4vityWall 1y agoBut they can't pick a vendor who may host it better than the original authors. And the only reason for that is because the authors maybe would make less money that way.
- Dylan16807 1y ago"maybe would make less money" could be a catastrophic undermining of their business model, also ruining their ability to continue development, so I am very sympathetic to that reason. Being stuck between "host it yourself" or "don't have the latest features" is pretty far from a rock and hard place.
- watwut 1y agoI am even confused about this dichotomy. Like, who is NOT hosting liquibase himself? It is a dev tool.