RethinkDB may have failed as a business, but it’s getting new life as part of The Linux Foundation. As announced today, the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) has purchased the RethinkDB intellectual property assets for $25,000, which it has relicensed under the developer-friendly Apache License (ASLv2), and gifted the code to The Linux Foundation.
It’s an intriguing development, and possibly an out for other failed startups with interesting software assets, although “it’s unlikely that another deal along these lines would emerge” given the “highly unusual set of circumstances,” as CNCF Executive Director Dan Kohn told me.
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Stephen Lloyd 