I think we're all better off if small and midsized OSS companies thrive. Amazon is not inventing and open sourcing DBs. For the last 15 years, we've relied on i

I think we're all better off if small and midsized OSS companies thrive. Amazon is not inventing and open sourcing DBs. For the last 15 years, we've relied on independent companies to advance the state of the art for _all of us_. Amazon has no reason to build a compelling database and release it to the community. When the giant tech companies do open source they're work, it's usually an attempt to improve their existing market at the expensive of another company: Kubernetes, OpenDistro, Firecracker, and most of the CNCF projects follow this pattern. A fork is a natural response to an OSS project license change. But when the company that _forces_ the license change also creates the fork, it's gross.