I feel there's a few cases cited here to make a case that an entired business model is dying, but it doesn't look to me that this is an overall trend. You can't extrapolate from "5 projects didn't fare well with this, so it's not working".
But there's more. I followed the MongoDB case a bit and it's not exactly how many make it sound like. MongoDB was doing fine as a company. It wasn't like they were unable to pay their programmers because AWS offered a hosted MongoDB.
In the months before that controversial license change they got plenty of funding from investors.
It looked all more like investors created expectations of future revenue and they became cold feet if they could meet those expectations.
It remains to be seen how this will work out in the long run. I'd personally consider everything that depends on MongoDB to be toxic. With that license it won't be shiped in standard linux distros, other projects are less likely to build on it.
But there's more. I followed the MongoDB case a bit and it's not exactly how many make it sound like. MongoDB was doing fine as a company. It wasn't like they were unable to pay their programmers because AWS offered a hosted MongoDB.
In the months before that controversial license change they got plenty of funding from investors.
It looked all more like investors created expectations of future revenue and they became cold feet if they could meet those expectations.
It remains to be seen how this will work out in the long run. I'd personally consider everything that depends on MongoDB to be toxic. With that license it won't be shiped in standard linux distros, other projects are less likely to build on it.