>What open source company? Not Elastic, surely. Why not? That's immediately who I thought of. Company 1 develops an open-sources a product, and in order to ma

>What open source company? Not Elastic, surely. Why not? That's immediately who I thought of. Company 1 develops an open-sources a product, and in order to make money from it, provides that product as a hosted service. AWS uses their market dominance to provide a similar service and eats Company 1's lunch. Company 1 changes their license so that any other company hosting the product as a service has to pay. AWS forks it and acts like the good guy.