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Yes, let's praise and reward the hyperscaler and not the small company that is 1% of the size of AWS. AWS got Elastic's goodies for free. They just came in and
by echelon 2y ago
Yes, let's praise and reward the hyperscaler and not the small company that is 1% of the size of AWS.
AWS got Elastic's goodies for free. They just came in and gobbled up all of that value for themselves like vultures. Meanwhile the people putting in the work effectively got robbed.
Small companies should stop doing open source and switch to source available + MAU/ARR restriction clauses.
- zokier 2y agoThe small company with over billion dollar revenue and thousands of employees?
- lsh0 2y ago> the small company that is 1% of the size of AWS What on earth? Elastic is a multi-billion dollar company. They are no indie startup, scrappy underdog nor are they victims here. AWS took the high road during this fiasco despite Elastic's mudslinging and flailing about.
- okbro 2y ago> What on earth? Elastic is a multi-billion dollar company. They are no indie startup, scrappy underdog nor are they victims here. > AWS took the high road during this fiasco despite Elastic's mudslinging and flailing about. They didn't start as a multi-billion dollar company. In fact, AWS started shipping their Elasticsearch Service in 2015. Public records show that Elastic's annual revenue in 12 months after their IPO in 2018 was ~200m with <1000 employees. I'd argue that Elastic is a multi-billion dollar company _in spite_ of AWS.
- globular-toast 2y agoThey shouldn't stop doing open source, they should just make sure they use the correct licence, like AGPL. Businesses will always take as much as they can and give back as little as they can. The "permissive" licences specifically allow them to give back nothing. Cue shocked Pikachu when they do exactly that.