Re:Homebrew removes MongoDB from core formulas
by bad_user on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:32PM
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People invest in open source when they believe in its continuity.
No, people sending patches are not necessarily benefiting from it. Patches can be very expensive and it can be cheaper to pay for actual support with a proprietary solution that's at least honest about its nature and won't pull a bait and switch on you.
Cloud providers are now barred from using new MongoDB versions.
Is that fair? Well, the developers (a company) made a choice. They want the revenue from the support/monitoring business, AWS is eating their lunch. So either they completely change their business or try to somehow stop AWS et al. from doing that.
Since MongoDB just recently released 4.x with distributed transactions, it made sense to do the license change thing. Otherwise no one would care (and anyone stuck on AWS would just continue to use whatever 3.x compatible AWS provided).
And still, it's likely that AWS will continue to offer their non-feature-parity fork for quite some time.
So, in that sense anyone who cares or cared for AGPL MongoDB tech should have advocated for this license change a lot sooner.