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Re:Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana by dhd415 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:39AM (#25778452)
I don't think it's really that different. Elastic did that same thing about three years ago when they made all of their enterprise-only features source-available (https://www.elastic.co/blog/doubling-down-on-open). Timescale also made their enterprise features free of charge, but that's a business decision rather than a question of licensing. It's because their revenue model is based completely on their managed cloud offering while Elastic still gets non-trivial revenue from selling their enterprise features to customers who want them.
Re:Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana by DetroitThrow on Friday January 15, 2021 @01:20PM (#25794125)
Is this an elastic employee throwaway? How is going from a more permissive license to less permissive one "not really that different" than the inverse?!