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I love how they offered $5 million in amazon kindles and hosting to them. How absolutely daft. Couldn't they just offer money? (Not that it's more likely to wor

by atonse 8y ago

I love how they offered $5 million in amazon kindles and hosting to them. How absolutely daft. Couldn't they just offer money? (Not that it's more likely to work, but the kindles and hosting was ridiculous).

sametmax 8y ago
It's just a way to appear generous with an offer they know they won't accept.
- penagwin 8y ago
  And/or a way to "offer more value" without the extra cost. Same reason you get more trade-in credit for a giftcard then cash, hosting is "virtually" free, and kindles only cost production + shipping cost. Not defending them, this is a useless offer, just offering another reason they'd have.
  - 7dare 8y ago
    And $5 million is nothing for Amazon, especially given they're only actually spending a fraction of that as you mentioned.
  - anigbrowl 8y ago
    People who run corporations either don't get or don't care that predicating relationships on deception makes people not like them.
kristianc 8y ago
You laugh, but people sign up to Techstars for just that every year. Pity they didn't throw in some AWS Credits as well.
- atonse 8y ago
  We're talking about indigenous nations. What the hell are they going to do with AWS hosting?
  - penagwin 8y ago
    If they're fighting over the '.amazon' TLD then presumably they'll need some form of hosting no? I still agree it's a stupid offer from amazon though.
  - miglmj 8y ago
    We're not, actually. The "nations of the amazon" referred to in the article are "Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela - all members of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization" In this case, I could see AWS hosting being useful to them (maybe even something along the lines of GovCloud like AWS runs for the US Government)