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The war for the soul of open source (changelog.com)
4 points by pritambarhate on July 20, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


In the podcast Adam Jacob (co-founder and board member of Chef) explains why he thinks license change by OSS companies like MongoDB, Cockroach DB were wrong.

He thinks that if AWS indeed decides to offer your OSS software as service, it gives a huge boost to the community around your project which can benefit the bottom line of your company if your execution was good.

It would be interesting to know rest of the Hacker News community's opinion about it.




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