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I don't think open core is being called into question. By that rationale, anything that is closed source that gets too popular is also called into question. Not

I don't think open core is being called into question. By that rationale, anything that is closed source that gets too popular is also called into question. Nothing is stopping AWS or anyone else from copying your API, features or anything else regardless of if your product is open, closed, or some combination in between. I think if anything is called into question, it's the development of infrastructure software in a startup. Does it make economic sense anymore? As in, is it possible to profit directly off it at this point? Right now it obviously is, but it seems to be trending away from that.

zaat 8y ago
> Nothing is stopping AWS or anyone else from copying your API The API of a closed source, propriety and patented software can't just be copied. See Oracle vs Google.
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  > See Oracle vs Google. That’ll (maybe) be a more compelling argument for one side or the other of this argument when it is finally done. Especially if the Supreme Court rules, and it's not just the Federal Circuit’s interpretation of what the Ninth Circuit would say, which is not binding on lower courts (or other circuit courts, including the actual Ninth Circuit, in other cases.
Phrodo_00 8y ago
> Nothing is stopping AWS or anyone else from copying your API Aren't APIs under copyright now, thanks to Oracle vs Google?