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ANTHOLOGY — Maintaining maintainers (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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MongoDB: A Stable Funding Model for Open Source

MongoDB is not open source. It is SSPL. Open source prices that have adopted these open-ish licenses, except if you're going to run your own service, becomes a stable funding model for them. Amazon or somebody can take their product, productize it on their own thing, charge a bazillion dollars and they don't have any obligation to give back anything to the project. So it's a huge challenge.

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