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Apple buys and closes open source Database outfit

by on26 March 2015


A clash of two religions

Apple has shut down an open-source database outfit called FoundationDB after quietly buying up the outfit and not mentioning it.

Jobs' Mob told Forbes that there was nothing to see here, move on please, when its hacks asked what it was playing with.

"Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we do not discuss our purpose or plans," the company told Forbes.

Forbes believed that Apple acquired the outfit to help the firm crunch the ever-increasing quantities of data that it holds.

But other rumours are that Apple wanted to pull the rug from under a developer community that was using FoundationDB tools via the GitHub repository for open-source software.

Jobs' Mob will use the technology to feather its own nest at the cost of existing users, and it will almost certainly snub those developers who worked on the software.

Fortunately for Apple, no one is blaming it, rather the developers are cross at the FoundationDB for selling out to an outfit which is so proprietary it makes Microsoft look like Richard Stallman.

"I can't believe you guys. This is the biggest F-you to all of us who believed in you and supported you," moaned one developer over here .

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