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Because it's more profitable to fork it, pay 2-3 engineers to maintain their fork, than to pay royalties forever.
by ecnahc515 7y ago
Because it's more profitable to fork it, pay 2-3 engineers to maintain their fork, than to pay royalties forever.
- silentsea90 7y agoThat's true now, but maintaining isn't the same as building new stuff. Amazon would have to invest more to build new functionality that Elasticsearch has devs and community helping them build. This assumes the ecosystem of devs has no importance?
- dingo_bat 7y ago2-3 dedicated high-quality devs in a company like Amazon can run circles around 200-300 random github PR contributors when it comes to implementation of features.