You can read about one experience from a few years ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31033758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31033758 I gues

You can read about one experience from a few years ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31033758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31033758 I guess ES has enough brand recognition. But it'd be killer for a lesser known project. While stars don't matter per se, they do give a project some credibility over a project with 0 stars or 50 stars. If someone looked at both Elasticsearch and Opensearch and was new to the area, they'd think Opensearch was the original and ES the fork.