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Amazon, everyone knows you monetize open source. It's not a huge secret. Brian Hall hasn't stolen any secret magic recipe that he's now selling to Google.
by say_it_as_it_is 6y ago
Amazon, everyone knows you monetize open source. It's not a huge secret. Brian Hall hasn't stolen any secret magic recipe that he's now selling to Google.
- dehrmann 6y agoIf you don't want your open-source project used in for-profit projects, license it that way. Amazon is playing by the rules these projects set out, and not by a technicality. That, and the reason some of their services (let's say RDS) are popular is the open source projects backing them were already popular, in part because their licenses are permissive enough for for-profit use. Arguably, this popularity helps the projects. What Amazon is doing with RDS isn't any different from a for-profit company hosting Mysql themselves. They're also not really monetizing open source, at least not any more than a consultant does. What you're really paying for is Amazon to manage it for you--that's their value-add.