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Software Vendors Dump Open Source, Go For the Cash Grab
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this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024
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They don't care much for the license per-se, but they would if it affect their business.
On one of my projects, we had to be stuck with an older version of MongoDB due to the Mongo cloud service not having server in certain regions.
Since the project deals with sensitive information, that cloud service not an option. The only option that we have is to use local cloud providers. The only problem is the latest version (that we're using on most our stuff) was priced exorbitantly.
We ended up using the ones with the last version with AGPL. Had to change a bunch of our code to accomodate the downgrade.
It's easy to judge from ivory tower, but the reality in the industry is that we can't be idealists on everything.