The Death of Openness and Freedom?

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Examines recent shifts away from traditional open-source freedom during 2020, pointing to license changes and cloud-provider exclusive offerings from projects like MongoDB, Elastic and Redis. Describes the pattern of vendors using open-source releases as a freemium or gateway strategy and the appearance of provider-maintained “open source compatible” forks of databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, arguing these trends threaten classic open-source values.

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