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> Why isn't the entire stack of AWS infra open source, again? This line of argument is untethered from reality. The Linux Foundation actually is the parent of

• echelon 2y ago
  > This line of argument is untethered from reality. You had a business that was acquired by Amazon. I don't know if you're giving this a fair assessment. When the copyright holders of large open source infrastructure projects want revenue from their hard work, Amazon forks them or provides funding to their direct competitors. Amazon can strategically launch free and open source competition to commercialized open source products as a means of keeping more of the cloud spend budget for themselves. The hyperscalers want to commoditize anything that impinges upon their margins. The software should be free, it should run on their clouds, and it should lead to increased cloud spending. Other companies shouldn't dip their hands into the pot. Moreover, hyperscalers get to hoover up "managed" versions of open source software and collect even thicker margins. Redis, Elasticsearch, etc. fly in the face of this strategy, which is why they attack it so relentlessly. The Linux Foundation and CNCF serve its industry contributors. The microservice ecosystem is booming business for AWS, Azure, and GCP. I don't see how this is "untethered from reality". This is cutthroat business, and it's how the trillion dollar companies throw their weight around. If you build open source infrastructure products and don't have an anti-cloud provision, you'll get picked clean by the hyperscalers.