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So.. If Amazon is capable of this, why haven't they done it? In fact, instead, they have been purchasing companies (OpsWorks used to be a product by a third par
by jonaf 10y ago
So.. If Amazon is capable of this, why haven't they done it? In fact, instead, they have been purchasing companies (OpsWorks used to be a product by a third party company; can't get reference on a phone at the moment).
This makes me believe that Amazon knows this clause is unenforceable or that they would lose in court if they tried to act on it.
- bkanber 10y agoNot a lawyer, but I think the reason Amazon did this is to prevent themselves against Oracle vs Google type issues. Alternatively, it could prevent attacks against AWS packaging popular software like Node or Wordpress in their offerings. One day Node might get upset at being repackaged and sold on AWS as part of Lambda or whatever (dunno if this is accurate but you get the idea), and Amazon wants to protect themselves against being sued in the future for that type of packaging.
- jon-wood 10y agoThis wouldn't actually help in the case of Node becoming upset about Amazon using their code. The agreement is between the AWS customer and Amazon - Node's owners aren't party to it. Besides which, Node's licence expressly grants permission to build commercial products on top of it.
- spdionis 10y agoOpsworks used to be called Scalarium.