A lot of open-source Apache projects were backed by commercial companies, and clouds (primarly AWS) forked those projects competing directly with the companies

A lot of open-source Apache projects were backed by commercial companies, and clouds (primarly AWS) forked those projects competing directly with the companies backing the Apache projects. The end result was that the commercial companies mostly released new versions of the software with more restrictive licenses that could not be sold for free by the cloud companies. That doesn't make Apache software a graveyard. It just makes that go-to-market open-source model leveraging Apache's brand a dead-end.