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In 2021, Elastic NV took in $608M, while MongoDB Inc reported nearly $874M in revenue. It’s simply impossible to believe that’s not enough money to pay developers and keep the software stable and current. The MongoDB contributor graph on GitHub shows a grand total of 18 developers with more than 500 merged commits since 2008. Their issue with Amazon is market share, not pull requests.
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That’s one lesson, but I want to push back on the idea that it’s the only one. The story is more complicated. Horn’s piece was written in reaction to Mozilla’s August 2020 layoffs of roughly 250 people. For many of us, Mozilla is still synonymous with the best of FOSS: an international, nonprofit entity that makes end user software people actually use, that promotes solid and occasionally brilliant engineering, and that for decades has been essentially the only player in web standards representing the interests of the public. Those layoffs were a dark day not just for Mozilla, but for all of planet FOSS.
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OpenSSL is possibly the most popular library in the world for encrypting and decrypting web traffic. In 2014, a bug in the library known as “Heartbleed” was uncovered that allows an attacker to read sensitive memory contents, like encryption keys, or usernames and passwords:
