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I meant they have the resources to copy any product in a way that will crush the competition. As in, they can build an alternative to an open source project, o
by palata 2y ago
I meant they have the resources to copy any product in a way that will crush the competition.
As in, they can build an alternative to an open source project, offer it for free (i.e. at a loss) for years until they capture the market, and then start enshittifying. This is an antitrust problem.
> Elastic explicitly allowed AWS to copy and use their source code, then whined about it.
Yeah at the very least they should have started with a copyleft licence.
- growse 2y agoAh I see what you mean. Yes, agree. But that's orthogonal to OSS and like you say is a reg issue.
- ikiris 2y agoIts really hard to make an argument that someone is selling under market to try to corner it when the alternative is free as well.
- palata 2y agoWell if there is a company paying salaries from it, it's not exactly free.