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AWS's model seems to be to take a popular OSS product, do _just_ enough to make it work with AWS, make tons of money out of it, contribute a minimal amount back
by gnfargbl 6y ago
AWS's model seems to be to take a popular OSS product, do _just_ enough to make it work with AWS, make tons of money out of it, contribute a minimal amount back... and then act all surprised when they're painted as the bad guys.
Take postgres. RDS is a core AWS product. They absolutely rely on it. But if you take a look at
https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/, are any of the current major contributors at AWS? If they are, I can't see them.
It's okay to behave like that when you're a small or even medium sized tech company. But when you're the world's number one cloud service, by quite some margin? Hmmn.
- sjwright 6y agoOther people have chosen to license their own work with the license of their choice. The license is being complied with by AWS in fact and in spirit. If you don't agree with the spirit of the Apache license terms, that's fine. You can draft an Apache-for-everyone-except-AWS license and lobby for its use by others.
- Tostino 6y agoYou are missing the forest for the trees. I don't see many (really any) people saying that AWS went against the license terms. Simply that their actions do not benefit these projects in any proportional way which they rely on heavily. I'm sure many of these projects would much rather just have more collaboration and support from AWS than to have to think about and deal with a major player being a bad actor. Edit: I am much more talking about projects like Postgres than companies like Elastic.