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3) The cloud provider forks at the version under the previous license, continues to iterate on it by adding valuable features that are exposed to users, which t
by im_down_w_otp 7y ago
3) The cloud provider forks at the version under the previous license, continues to iterate on it by adding valuable features that are exposed to users, which the OSS version won't have, and now the OSS vendor is playing both marketplace & technical catch-up at the same time and with each reinforcing the downside of the other. Effectively forcing original innovator into the position of being a fast-follower.
- senderista 7y agoYou mean like what AWS did with Elastic?
- _msw_ 7y agoNo. In that case, AWS built and released new Apache licensed, 100% open source extensions for Elasticache to make essential functionality like TLS encryption and authentication available to anyone. It did not fork Elasticsearch, it released a collection of software that works with the OSS core version of Elasticsearch. Disclosure: I work at AWS on EC2, and sometimes provide my opinion on open source topics to other teams.