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Re:Lack of leadership in open source results in source-avail... by detaro on Saturday June 01, 2019 @05:24PM (#20071786)
How would less permissive software existing have helped e.g. MongoDB with their "AWS problem"?
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Re:Lack of leadership in open source results in source-avail... by pritambaral on Sunday June 02, 2019 @04:47AM (#20074289)
MongoDB did not have an "AWS problem". AWS did not release anything related to MongoDB until after they stopped making open-source releases.

MongoDB had a "We gave others freedoms we didn't like" problem, so they rescinded those freedoms. Freedoms that they'd given in the first place to profit off of the reputation of Open Source Software. If they'd never given those freedoms out, they'd never have had any problems.

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