I give AWS employees the benefit of innovation eg. inventing "the cloud" as we know it today, but what's in there for developers? What are the incentives for F/

I give AWS employees the benefit of innovation eg. inventing "the cloud" as we know it today, but what's in there for developers? What are the incentives for F/OSS software developers if all they contribute to is monopolization, lock-in, and attention economy? tbray wants to appeal to an F/OSS ethos that has run its course and just doesn't make sense in the cloud economy. I'd go further and say F/OSS has ruined the software industry in that it has made software a commodity, so the only way to make a living is by operations, taking away economic value from developers, and giving it to cloud providers instead. That's obviously not a sustainable model for software development going forward, and creates incentives that are neither aligned with those of developers nor customers. Well, AWS at least offers the marketplace for indie developers to offer their images (with a markup for billing which is ok I guess). If AWS is serious about a sustainable economic model for software developers, then they could start to expand this offering and make it more prominent (I haven't heard much about it in a long while), building it on mainstream Linux distros rather than AWS Linux, etc. What I'm seeing on AWS marketplace and places such as DockerHub, though, are mostly repackaged F/OSS convenience builds rather than original applications. And AWS could have made a stance here by selling eg. Mongo DB images from the marketplace rather than going for Mongo's customers with their own offering. I guess it's better than on Azure and Google Cloud at least, where you need a partnership deal to even be able to sell images.