Re:Death of an open-source business model
by x0x0 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:26PM
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> In the months before that controversial license change they got plenty of funding from investors.
Getting funding from investors sucks. It comes with expectations of growth. Mongo still hasn't turned a profit. To the extent that they are a saas business with saas economics that's common, but still. They clearly read the writing on the wall and declined to fund AWS's R&D costs for free.
Getting funding from investors sucks. It comes with expectations of growth. Mongo still hasn't turned a profit. To the extent that they are a saas business with saas economics that's common, but still. They clearly read the writing on the wall and declined to fund AWS's R&D costs for free.