> We have differentiated with proprietary features, and now we see these feature designs serving as "inspiration" for Amazon I am sympathetic to many of Elasti

> We have differentiated with proprietary features, and now we see these feature designs serving as "inspiration" for Amazon I am sympathetic to many of Elastic's complaints, but not this one. If you make an open-core product, you have to expect that others will attempt to make competing, possibly open source, alternatives to your proprietary components.