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>However, developers are technically savvy enough to distinguish between the real thing and a poor imitation. MongoDB will continue to outperform any impersonations in the market

This feels like a MongoDB sponsored post. How badly would you have to fuck up to be considered a poor imitation of MongoDB?

In any case I don't see how having their own hosted version of MongoDB is a middle finger to open source, but Aurora SQL/PostgresQL isn't. Is Cockroach a middle finger Postgres? I don't consider this any more a middle finger than the SSPL.

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> In any case I don't see how having their own hosted version of MongoDB is a middle finger to open source

Especially when MongoDB is itself no-longer open source.

In fact, AWS is providing a service compatible with MongoDB 3.6, which is open source. In a way, AWS "forked" MongoDB 3.6 after the creator of MongoDB made the software proprietary. Isn't that what Open Source is supposed to provide?

> How badly would you have to fuck up to be considered a poor imitation of MongoDB?

I literally laughed out loud at this. Thanks for the humor.

It’s clearly presented as a quote from mongoDB’s CEO.

The quote tickles me because in earlier days MongoDB's choice of defaults gave it a reputation as a poor imitation of a reliable document store.

One of my favorite tweets of all time -

  Hey Mongo I just met you
  And this is craaazy
  but here's my data
  so store it maybe?

unfortunately, I can't find the tweet.

https://www.informationweek.com/database/the-man-who-torture..., perhaps?

found it - https://twitter.com/bigdataborat/status/255746295036260353

Almost certainly Aphyr, aka Kyle Kingsbury aka @kingsbu.

https://aphyr.com/posts/284-jepsen-mongodb

found it - https://twitter.com/bigdataborat/status/255746295036260353

How credible techcrunch should be considered a reliable journalism source here? This one smells pretty much like a money article

TechCrunch lost credibility a loooong time ago (well before being sold to AOL). It's safe to ignore any drivel it publishes.

That sentence was presented clearly as a quote from the MongoDB CEO, and followed immediately by "[t]hat’s a pretty feisty comment."

I don't entirely disagree with your overall assessment, but it could just be a case of clickbait journalism, rather than payola.

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