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by bigiain 2808 days ago
For all his craziness, you've got to admire Stallman for his unwavering conviction of his version of what free software should be and allow. I don't know whether he'd be frothing at the mouth, or quietly thinking "I told you so..." about the current antics at Redis and Mongo...
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I wonder what it would take for the community to fork a major project in response to a license update by the original company that 'owns' it
It happened with OpenOffice --> LibreOffice when Oracle acquired Sun.
It's already happened for Redis I think? And MySQL -> Maria.