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Does Amazon contribute cash to the open source projects that it turns into services?
by hoodoof 9y ago
Does Amazon contribute cash to the open source projects that it turns into services?
- nopzor 9y agoNope. For an example look st elasticsearch. Pretty predatory.
- scrollaway 9y agoUh, I wouldn't call it predatory. It's a shame they don't contribute more and they could do a lot better, but turning projects into services massively contributes to their ecosystem.
- nopzor 9y agoMaybe predatory is a strong word. Many OSS projects would characterize them that way though, I think. Your point about impact to the ecosystem is a fair one, but in some cases it is more co-opt rather than contribute.
- scrollaway 9y agoI think a lot of that is perception. I know the AWS RDS team has a pretty close knit relationship with the Postgres team, it's just not super obvious.
- markporter_aws 9y agoAmazon has made contributions to open source in many ways, including bug fixes, spending hundreds of thousands/year to sponsor conferences, and even giving the PostgreSQL community a free testing account to run regression, soak, or functionality test suites on AWS for free. So yes, Amazon contributes cash to open source projects, at least to PostgreSQL, which we find to be a wonderful community that we are proud to be part of.
- hoodoof 9y agoHow much cash did AWS give to Postgres?
- rand0mthought 9y agoAmazon is a real parasite on open source projects, it never gives back.