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Unfortunately, AWS has invented and legitimized this entirely new class of leeching off of open source work, where they capture the entire economic value of a p
by jeswin 1y ago
Unfortunately, AWS has invented and legitimized this entirely new class of leeching off of open source work, where they capture the entire economic value of a project by owning the hosting infrastructure; contributing nothing back and forking when the original authors protest. OSS stewards should correct this - in my view disallow cloud vendors beyond a certain size to freeload.
- account42 1y agoI'd rather those "OSS vendors" would look for a better business model than software as a service. Having the option for competing service providers (including yourself) is a big advantage of open source.