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I think Amazon does a much bigger disservice. > but enough open source will ensure that software licensing is not a sustainable model to seek rent So your sol
by anth_anm 8y ago
I think Amazon does a much bigger disservice.
> but enough open source will ensure that software licensing is not a sustainable model to seek rent
So your solution to this is to just make it so no one can make money doing work.
Except Jeff. Jeff gets all the money.
- hnarn 8y agoLooking at it rationally, is furthering open source admirable when it's done by a community activist, and loathsome when it's done by someone who has a business interest in the exact same outcome? Why isn't the end result the most important part of the equation? If a stronger, open sourced Elasticsearch comes out of this, why is that a bad thing because it was backed by Amazon?
- skywhopper 8y agoJust be honest, and don't pretend to be open source, when you are attempting to harness goodwill towards open source in order to make a buck. As pointed out, ES builds on the work of hundreds of other contributors to other open source projects. Is Elastic compensating those developers?
- weberc2 8y ago> don't pretend to be open source In my mind, a company that makes lots of free contributes to open source is an open-source-friendly company, but this thread and the other on the Elastic post made me realize just how many people think that a True Open Source Company (whatever that means) should prefer to go out of business to dealing in proprietary software. I personally don't care for any of these puritanical viewpoints that deny economic realities (there's only so much a person or a collective can afford to give away for free, money doesn't grow on trees, etc). Open source is good, but thriving, sustainable open source depends on a symbiotic relationship with for-profit institutions.