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Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license by manigandham on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:20AM (#18239929)
What's backwards? Who cares how we got cloud providers? They are responding to customer demand and we've had colos and datacenter players for decades doing similar things, just at a smaller scale.

Obviously the service is managed and that has value, regardless of the backend and your opinions on how they run it. Perhaps your issue is with all the customers who want and pay for this rather than providers meeting a need.

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Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license by tannhaeuser on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @04:16PM (#18243335)
Yeah sorry reading my post just now I should've edited it, or not submitted in the first place. What I meant is that F/OSS has kindof created a situation where no commercial software development by ISVs is sustainable, and now F/OSS itself looses one of the last remaing avenues for monetarization eg. feedback into development and innovation.
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