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They tried to play a game with open source, they knew the rules and AWS did nothing wrong, not even ethically, it's all in the spirit and the letter of the lice
by Guthur 6y ago
They tried to play a game with open source, they knew the rules and AWS did nothing wrong, not even ethically, it's all in the spirit and the letter of the licenses ES chose (for example).
I've literally no sympathy for ES whatsoever, they were either incompetent or playing games.
What ES invested and the size of AWS has literally nothing to do with the discussion, ES made a choice pure and simple. They are within their rights to make a new choice if they so choose.
- hnedeotes 6y ago> not even ethically Ethics don't come into play here and I also don't have any specific sympathy for ES, but I have sympathy for people and companies that provide open source software that others can read and tinker with. I can like AWS because of providing me services I find useful. That doesn't mean that I have to like everything about them. > What ES invested and the size of AWS has literally nothing to do with the discussion Well, it does and doesn't. In a way it would be great to have open-source software be the default, but given that anybody with resources can simply take it and build a then non-open-source version of it and polish it or integrate into much higher leverage existing systems, it does pose some questions as towards what licensing open-source software should have in the first place and if it should be infecting or simply have multiple different clauses related to how it's being used. But yeah, when playing a game make sure you know the rules and all.
- Guthur 6y agoImo ES got benefit from open source sa marketing tool. Amd no matter what AWS contributed back the fact is ES doesn't want someone else to reap the benefit of that marketing play.