The whining about cloud vendors making money off OSS is sour grapes, plain and simple. OSS exists in the spectrum of a gift economy. Once you give it away, you

The whining about cloud vendors making money off OSS is sour grapes, plain and simple. OSS exists in the spectrum of a gift economy. Once you give it away, you don't get to expect something in return, or expect them to use it in a particular way. You gifted it away. In fact, the original OSS definition explicitly stated you could not discriminate against fields of endeavor. But I guess envy is stronger than idealism.