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Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'... by bityard on Friday August 11, 2023 @10:56AM (#37089395)
> it is indeed unfair for AWS to make money off hosted open-source mongodb

Why? If software authors don't understand that releasing their code under an open source license means someone else other than them may potentially benefit from it, that's really on them.

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Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'... by hashtag-til on Friday August 11, 2023 @11:38AM (#37089930)
Authors do understand the benefits of OSS development.

Predatory unethical open source freeloaders don’t.

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Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'... by _msw_ on Monday August 14, 2023 @05:19PM (#37126940)
Disclosure: I work for Amazon.

Amazon has never offered a database service based on the MongoDB server software. Not when it was AGPLv3 nor when it was SSPLv1.

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Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'... by redwood on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @03:54AM (#37131351)
But Amazon did copy the software and continues to sow confusion in the community about which is which
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Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'... by _msw_ on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @07:20PM (#37140624)
No, it didn't copy the software. That's like saying min.io copied S3 software, which would also be false.

It implemented a wire protocol for interoperability purposes, similar to functionality in IBM DB2, Azure CosmosDB, FerretDB, and other databases.

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Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'... by redwood on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @01:17AM (#37143105)
Right and it continues to sow confusion in the community
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Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'... by _msw_ on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @05:57PM (#37154428)
If there is anything specific you believe is confusing, please provide some details and I will pass the feedback on.
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Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'... by redwood on Monday August 28, 2023 @07:23PM (#37301605)
Sure just do a Google search and you will see that a user searching for the database is going to get routed to the clone in the AWS organic and sponsored results
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