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Has these moves to non-FOSS ever ended up working well in the long term? I think for Elastic and Mongo both it hasn't been the stellar successes they'd hoped for, those are the two major cases on top of my head. Or the big FOSS exodus of Sun projects post-Oracle acquisition.

There will be almost certainly some OpenRedis project, but this move might just kill the wider community interest.

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By which metrics are you evaluating those companies' license changes? Both are significantly more profitable than before they changed licenses, MongoDB especially. I'm not sure there's a causal relationship, but it doesn't seem to have significantly harmed them.

Dunno about long term, but docker made a bunch of money by switching up the docker-desktop licensing.

It's a bit different though, since it was already on a proprietary license, and they just changed the terms.

Isn't that just the standard Oracle playbook: increase prices and push people to alternatives? k8s has long dropped docker as a base technology, it really is the dockerhub default that makes docker relevant.

That was more because they put a gun to people's head though wasn't it?

Docker on windows is pretty painful without docker desktop. You can certainly get it running without docker desktop, but the polish isn't there. As far as I know there is no way to install docker on windows manually and get integration with 3rd party tools. The closest I've come is using podman desktop. I think it has a way to go before it can be considered a drop in replacement

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