Elastic was attempting to leverage open-source into proprietary vendor lock-in by blurring the line between proprietary and FOSS code. As far as I'm concerned,

Elastic was attempting to leverage open-source into proprietary vendor lock-in by blurring the line between proprietary and FOSS code. As far as I'm concerned, Amazon fighting the trojan horse is a good thing. FOSS should not be an advertising stunt that gets walked back by coupling and interleaving FOSS with proprietary... especially not a project that already has community contributions. There are plenty of FOSS business models. If those aren't profitable enough, go proprietary.