>This just means their CTO was sloppy, Amazon legal department would have never allowed that tweet. Surely the legal department would have issued some sort of

>This just means their CTO was sloppy, Amazon legal department would have never allowed that tweet. Surely the legal department would have issued some sort of retraction. Can you find it? >Definitely an abuse of power by Amazon Yeah, that's what we're saying. >people were scared of using proprietary code without knowing...I'm not surprised they missed some as it was really hard to tell. Amazon is a trillion dollar company that has every capability of doing their due diligence. Sloppy communication, abuse of trademarks and stealing proprietary code are all inexcusable behaviors by a company with the size and power that Amazon has. You're describing the problem as if it were the excuse. Amazon abused their power, stole proprietary code, abused a trademark, and violated the culture of the open source community whose code they were leveraging for profit. There's no excuse for it, even if it was somehow legal - and I don't suspect it was. I suspect that Amazon knows it's not legal - they just figure they can get away with it.