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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by nlightcho on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @10:18AM (#19442429)
The cloud providers have enough resources to provide APIs that are compatible with the popular ones. They won't be selling you Mongo but a Mongo-compatible replacement built in house.
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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by bigiain on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @10:44PM (#19448896)
Yeah - but they need Mongo (or whatever) to a) exist, and b) be widely enough used to make it worth their while.

Amazon isn't in the business of creating and promoting new software to developers. Not in the way Mongo/Redis/Elastic are.

"Popular things" have to come from somewhere, and my optimistic side kinda hopes that _maybe_ these new "OSS unless you're a cloud provider" licenses will be a way to fund development of software too big and complex and ambitious that it won't ever get started as a "scratch your itch" project. I dunno if that'll pan out. But I'm glad someone is trying.

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