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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by pritambaral on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:53PM (#16878895)
~~How is it different from when Apple acquired the then-open-source FoundationDB (and shut down public access)? They could have just kept it open source back then.~~

EDIT: My bad, looks like FoundationDB wasn't fully open-source back then.

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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by djrogers on Thursday April 19, 2018 @03:31PM (#16879265)
From what I recall (and based on some quick retro-googling) I don't believe Foudnation was open-source. One of the complaints about it on HN back in the day was that it was closed...
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Re:Apple open-sources FoundationDB by piva00 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:35PM (#16880369)
You are correct, FoundationDB was free but never OSS.

You can even check the comments on the HN thread [1] when they removed the downloads.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259986

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