> Esepcially for the case of a database, the only way to make money is by having managed service or licesning it to cloud vendors. I can't think of any other way of monetizing such a product
What about charging all their users? It's worked out fine for Oracle.
The current licensing scheme is fine, too. Again: no one has any issue with Mongo charging their users! It's just not open source software.
> For the case of Amazon sponsoring linux, it's because the very interest of Amazon that Linux stays alive and active because all their billions from AWS comes by running linux kernel as infrastructure, not to mention having the advantage to influence the components being added and maintained that result directly in more profit for them.
The question remains, though: why is it acceptable for Mongo to profit off Amazon's open-source contributions without compensating them (or at least donating to the projects themselves), but not vice versa?
> Linux foundation is totally different in its structure and goals from a for-profit company like Mongo.
I don't understand your point here. Mongo isn't owed anything extra just because they've decided to structure themselves as a for-profit company.
What about charging all their users? It's worked out fine for Oracle.
The current licensing scheme is fine, too. Again: no one has any issue with Mongo charging their users! It's just not open source software.
> For the case of Amazon sponsoring linux, it's because the very interest of Amazon that Linux stays alive and active because all their billions from AWS comes by running linux kernel as infrastructure, not to mention having the advantage to influence the components being added and maintained that result directly in more profit for them.
The question remains, though: why is it acceptable for Mongo to profit off Amazon's open-source contributions without compensating them (or at least donating to the projects themselves), but not vice versa?
> Linux foundation is totally different in its structure and goals from a for-profit company like Mongo.
I don't understand your point here. Mongo isn't owed anything extra just because they've decided to structure themselves as a for-profit company.