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So AWS, if your chief advantage is your operations, then why not open source both improvements you make to third party open source products and your own product
by thayne 7y ago
So AWS, if your chief advantage is your operations, then why not open source both improvements you make to third party open source products and your own products? It seems like it wouldn't help your competitors that much since they don't have your operational expertise, and it would help your customers a lot, since they could have a better understanding of how the products work, and even make contributions to fix bugs that effect them, instead of waiting for the amazon team to make it down the backlog.
I get not wanting to pay for the open source software you use. I don't get why so little code is contributed back upstream.
- deanCommie 7y agoThey do
- discodave 7y agoWhy would you open source the thing you're selling as your competitive advantage? Amazon is a business, not a charity.
- thayne 7y agoThe software is not what Amazon sells, and from what I can tell as an outsider AWS's competitive advantage primarily comes from infrastructure, operational skill, and economies of scale.
- timbray 7y agoAWS open-sources lots of stuff and upstreams lots of fixes. I'd expect this to increase in intensity. (Disclosure: I work there.)