Also, if you bought something closed-source to sell MongoDB as a service, why isn’t it realistic to buy a license?
Your suggestion of a monopoly in the DBaaS space seems to preclude the existence of other databases… Or am I misunderstanding?
I’m not sure what you mean by “IT is a business decision” — could you elaborate?
-edit- P.S. I’m trying to be supportive here; not trying to take anything away from what you’ve built with FerretDB! Honestly, there’s room for so room for innovation in this domain, and it’s nice to see new projects…
Lets say you are running your infra on any cloud provider. Do you think its realistic to get them to hand out their source code?
In fact, you can build a similar service and offer it within your organization (and subsidiaries), and you still don’t have to release anything. The license only applies to companies like Amazon if they offer MongoDB as their own service (DocumentDB).
I know that’s a bit tangential, but hope that helps a bit?
MongoDB Specifically switches from Open Source License to SSPL to create monopoly in DBaaS Space. IT is business decision so lets not pretend here.
If you look at Real Open Source software it is created for cooperation and innovation together, not monopoly.