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Bezos gives everyone the middle finger. Doesn't matter if you're part of the massive open source stack they profit from or one of their workers unfairly paid t
by benologist 8y ago
Bezos gives everyone the middle finger. Doesn't matter if you're part of the massive open source stack they profit from or one of their workers unfairly paid trying to meet unfair workload demands or one of the 100s of countries, states and cities they relentlessly conspire to steal taxes from.
What's really funny about their not-mongodb as a service is they will inevitably roll over any piece of software third parties host on AWS too if they think it makes enough money. Your SaaS is just another project for some team waiting on their next. They have already done that for 10,000s of physical products on Amazon.com that were sold by third party vendors who became redundant via Amazon releasing similar products under their own brands.
- harrumph 8y ago>is they will inevitably roll over any piece of software Can you please clarify? I'm researching AWS and am interested in the historical practices of the company, but I'm not sure what "roll over" means in the context you used it.
- benologist 8y agoI mean they will inevitably go through the websites people are hosting on AWS looking for profitable software to copy, because that's what Amazon has always done to people making money on Amazon.
- harrumph 8y agoThanks - I suspected you were saying as much. MongoDB aside, can you share examples of this process?
- benologist 8y agoSome of the physical merchandise they've copied, they have many more brands: https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics/b?node=10112675011 https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics/b?node=10112675011 They have been copying SaaS straight from their partners for years already too: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/08/amazon_copies_partner_products/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/08/amazon_copies_partn... I think you can add Heroku (AWS Beanstalk) even before that.
- harrumph 8y agoThanks again!