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The audacity of these AWS folks patronizing elastic about open source despite AWS making millions of dollars off of their open source project just reeks of enti
by juanbyrge 6y ago
The audacity of these AWS folks patronizing elastic about open source despite AWS making millions of dollars off of their open source project just reeks of entitlement. Glad I am never going to use AWS.
- blibble 6y agoI suspect the era just before the cloud was the peak of open source software these days you'd have to be a fool to start a company offering an open source server based product under a liberal license Amazon is a parasite, plain and simple
- tannhaeuser 6y agoThe whole point of "The Cloud" is to profit from F/OSS. And Elastic, Redis, Mongo, and also RedHat have indeed already adapted their licenses or offerings accordingly.
- paxys 6y agoLarge companies have monetized open source for decades, ever since open source has existed. Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon..the list is endless. I can't imagine why people will quit the open source movement now because they realize they can't make money from it – that has always been true. Writing FOSS to get rich has always been an oxymoron.
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- arp242 6y agoIt's not about "getting rich"; it's about being able to make a living. Those are not the same things.
- driverdan 6y agoThis is satire right? Do you say the same thing about Linux? nginx? WordPress?
- blantonl 6y agoI can't tell if this is sarcasm or real. But one thing is for certain, AWS is using open source software, for profit, under the Apache license, exactly as the license was intended
- Rebelgecko 6y agoWhen Amazon said things like how they "partnered" with Elastic, IMO they crossed a line