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> It took too long for the open-source community to figure out that the cloud providers are killing them

How are service providers killing FOSS? That doesn't make sense. Permissive FOSS licensing allows anyone to use their software, regardless of how it's used, and that's how it should be.

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Do you get to see AWS's source code for these services?

No...

That's how it's killing "FOSS". Extend and Extinguish. This is not a new playbook.

I don't think you get to see MongoDB's source code for the enterprise edition either (though I couldn't quickly verify on Google).

Of course they provide source! Source rpms and tgz are downloadable.

Enterprise isn’t gpl, but source is provided.

(This could have been easily answered with a google search, as you pointed out)

No, I meant that I did search it on Google, and couldn't easily see from the results which case it is. Google "mongodb enterprise source code" -- which one answers the question?

If it were so easy, you could have provided the citation yourself in that comment.

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