Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license
by pas on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @03:48PM
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They probably report issues back and so on.
How much AWS shares its profits with GCC, qemu, etc? Not at all besides the bare minimum that benefits them.
(And don't misunderstand me, I don't see Mongo as some kind of underdog here, but making big money from software is hard, even if - or exactly because - valuations - and funding - are in the sky.
And AWS is fundamentally a different kind of business than what open source usually is. It has a compounded networks effects / economies of scale effects. And on top of that it has a closed source management layer, but that is largely irrelevant, except for Mongo in this case.)
How much AWS shares its profits with GCC, qemu, etc? Not at all besides the bare minimum that benefits them.
(And don't misunderstand me, I don't see Mongo as some kind of underdog here, but making big money from software is hard, even if - or exactly because - valuations - and funding - are in the sky.
And AWS is fundamentally a different kind of business than what open source usually is. It has a compounded networks effects / economies of scale effects. And on top of that it has a closed source management layer, but that is largely irrelevant, except for Mongo in this case.)