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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by robocat on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:57PM (#19435054)
> puzzled why Redis Labs, Elastic, Confluent and Mongo DB aren't already coming together

At some point would it be collusion? I think collusion needs consumers, but the consumers of the cloud vendors would be harmed?

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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by mythz on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @04:03PM (#19435131)
Collusion is secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy in order to cheat or deceive others.

As with any standardization efforts this is just cooperation, there's nothing secretive, illegal or deceitful about it - they'd just be coming together to standardize on a License to build a sustainable business model that prevents cloud monopolies from using their OSS efforts to compete against them.

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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by amenod on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @04:04PM (#19435135)
No, I don't think so - they are not in competition among themselves. They just share a common threat because they chose a similar type of conducting business.
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