But is it...
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Amazon has sent a shot across the bow of MongoDB today as it announced a document database with Mongo compatibility. The launch of AWS DocumentDB – a fully managed document database service – comes just months after MongoDB announced a new licence aimed at stopping cloud giants ripping off its database. DocumentDB – curiously …
Bad analogy. Only sounds good to you because you know zero about the various flavors of patents, and their various limitations.
Bottom line is magacorp is releasing a database product that offers, as a side feature, backwards compatability (via an API) with the old version of another database. BFD
Please explain how using a piece of open source software in accordance to it's license is 'ripping off free software built by others' - which, as a sentence, seems to be contradictory - how can you rip off something that is free?
Failure to find a viable business model is not the fault of the users....
And, before you lecture me about licenses, I've actually co-authored 2 OSI approved licenses, so.....
Love how El Reg's shill bought into MongoDBs PR blitz about people using their open source software were somehow 'ripping them off' by following the licensing terms....
MongoDB's failure to figure out a viable business model is not the fault of users. It is not the responsibility of users of open source to fund venture backed startups.
If they wanted to monetize their software, they should have released it under a commercial license, but then they would have had to pay for market acquisition instead of getting it for free from the open source community.....