They didn't use an Open Source license with the intention of getting popular and then pulling the rug out from underneath users.
They tried to make their money by offering their tech as a service and found that they couldn't compete against the resources of large cloud providers who were happily profiting off of their (and the community's) hard work.
> They tried to make their money by offering their tech as a service and found that they couldn't compete against the resources of large cloud providers who were happily profiting off of their (and the community's) hard work.
And now the community's hard work is licensed under a new and restrictive license which, due to legal constraints, cannot be used in entreprise setups.
And now the community's hard work is licensed under a new
and restrictive license which, due to legal constraints,
cannot be used in entreprise setups.
Sure it can. It is fairly narrow in that it targets reselling it as-a-service. Many large companies are still running MongoDB for enterprise workloads, the SSPL does not change that.
They didn't use an Open Source license with the intention of getting popular and then pulling the rug out from underneath users.
They tried to make their money by offering their tech as a service and found that they couldn't compete against the resources of large cloud providers who were happily profiting off of their (and the community's) hard work.