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Except AWS is not forking open source for their own use. They sell it and get a lot of profit from it.
by zakki 5y ago
Except AWS is not forking open source for their own use. They sell it and get a lot of profit from it.
- growse 5y ago> Except AWS is not forking open source for their own use. They sell it and get a lot of profit from it. They sell a hosted service that uses the software. They're not selling the software. Pretty difficult to see how a company building a SaaS business around some software is not "for their own use".
- stonemetal12 5y agoYou also never hear anyone complain about the thousands of hosting providers that build their business around the LAMP stack. I wonder if it is because Amazon is so big, or just the lack of competition.
- madeofpalk 5y agoIt is definitely because Amazon/AWS is so big. That's the biggest part of the complaint.
- ethbr0 5y agoI think it's a general sense of unease with the probability that future F/OSS looks like "{Project}, sponsored by Amazon" due to cloud market dynamics and size. Coupling that with the fact that, in the past, F/OSS project control or domination by a single party hasn't turned out well.