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Re:Datomic Is Now Free by amluto on Thursday April 27, 2023 @11:21AM (#35729472)
Never. On the other hand, I have considerable confidence that I could do so, and that if something goes wrong with upstream development, someone is likely to do so.

If I use a free-binary-but-no-source product, I’m much more likely to get stuck.

(Of course, as a regretful MySQL user, I am pretty stuck, but largely because MySQL is, in many respects, a terrible product. It does, quite reliably, get security updates at the kind of general maintenance that keeps it working no worse than it ever did.)

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