Where does it say DocumentDB is Open Source? The lack of any mention is usually ...

datashaman · on Aug 22, 2014

A comment from someone on the team further up the page mentions that ElasticSearch is 'leveraged' inside the service, so I'd say there should be some mention of the Apache 2 license to represent the use of ElasticSearch.

https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch

ceejayoz · on Aug 22, 2014

Nowhere does it say DocumentDB is open source.

The Microsoft of the 1990s wouldn't be using Github.

dkuntz2 · on Aug 21, 2014

That comment was about Microsoft's documentation...

mythz · on Aug 21, 2014

This topic and the parents linked article is about MS's new DocumentDB as some example of how "remarkable"

> Microsoft's approach to open source

has become... when they're only using GitHub as a free-hosting CMS provider for docs.

I can't see how releasing a proprietary "DocumentDB" on a Microsoft-only Azure cloud is a glowing endorsement or valued contribution to OSS. Despite what their marketing messaging says about how "Open and approachable" it is: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/documentdb/archive/2014/08/22/introd...