I can understand the motivation - AWS' approach, particularly to elastic, has been pretty awful, and migrating away from Apache/GPL/MIT is like a coming of age for the big databases (Mongo, Cockroach, Elastic...) - but calling the article 'Doubling Down on Open' stretches credibility.
Be honest, treat us like adults and cut all the 'we're doing this to remain open' crap. You are a public company who wants to increase the cost of development to your competitors so you can increase your market share. That's it .
Maybe that is too cynical, but I recently went through a license shift (GPL to Apache) with TerminusDB and we were clear that honesty about motivation was the best formula for comms.
Be honest, treat us like adults and cut all the 'we're doing this to remain open' crap. You are a public company who wants to increase the cost of development to your competitors so you can increase your market share. That's it .
Maybe that is too cynical, but I recently went through a license shift (GPL to Apache) with TerminusDB and we were clear that honesty about motivation was the best formula for comms.