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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by toomuchtodo on Thursday August 10, 2023 @10:05PM (#37084259)
> The best possible response to a company doing this is that someone forks the code, starts or expands a competitor, and the original company's revenue drops massively as a deterrent.

Example of the last time this worked?

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday August 11, 2023 @12:18AM (#37085052)
I don't know what the impact was on their revenue, but pretty much anything Oracle has ever touched.
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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by toomuchtodo on Friday August 11, 2023 @12:44AM (#37085200)
But still wildly profitable!

https://investor.oracle.com/investor-news/news-details/2023/...

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by riffraff on Friday August 11, 2023 @01:07AM (#37085300)
Jenkins/Hudson?

Oracle decided to make Hudson commercial, it was forked and Jenkins is still around but Hudson is dead.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by pjmlp on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:00AM (#37086227)
Meanwhile Cloudbees has several product to sell you on.

Turns out Jenkins development needs to be sponsored somehow.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by gkbrk on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:23AM (#37085695)
ElasticSearch? A lot of people moved to open source forks.
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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by pjmlp on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:59AM (#37086221)
From where I am standing, no one cares they exist.
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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by BoorishBears on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:48AM (#37086498)
I hate OpenSearch with a passion, an absolutely horrid lagging project that can't get basic autocomplete working (https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/...)

but still manages to suck the air out of the room when you want Elasticsearch because AWS already has the company's billing details and no one wants to figure out paying another provider.

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