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This is consequence of open source.
This is the consequence of closed source. If Elasticsearch were still open source, then Amazon wouldn't have had any reason to do this. Elastic is getting exactly what they deserve.
Remember that in this story, as strange as this is to say, Amazon is the good guy. Elastic changed their products from a FOSS license to a proprietary one, and Amazon did exactly what you're supposed to do in that case: fork and continue development of the last FOSS version.
They changed the license after Amazon took all their revenue.
https://s2.q4cdn.com/265747582/files/doc_downloads/2021/Elas...
Revenue for FY2018 and 2017 was $160M and $88M respectively.
Is that what Amazon taking all their revenue looks like?
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This is the consequence of closed source. If Elasticsearch were still open source, then Amazon wouldn't have had any reason to do this. Elastic is getting exactly what they deserve.
If they would have been closed source from the get-go, Amazon would have had a far harder time cloning their product or even creating a service based on it to begin with. So yes, this is a consequence of them starting out open source.
As far as I'm aware, this is the first major "hostile" fork AWS has done. In fact, it's probably one of the largest ones overall. It will be really interesting to see how this plays out in the long run.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ppgosavi/status/11791819009690378...
Remember that in this story, as strange as this is to say, Amazon is the good guy. Elastic changed their products from a FOSS license to a proprietary one, and Amazon did exactly what you're supposed to do in that case: fork and continue development of the last FOSS version.
This is exactly what Amazon wants you to think. That's why they're calling it "OpenSearch" and not "AmazonSearch".
Remember that in this story, as strange as this is to say, Amazon is the good guy. Elastic changed their products from a FOSS license to a proprietary one, and Amazon did exactly what you're supposed to do in that case: fork and continue development of the last FOSS version.
They changed the license after Amazon took all their revenue.
This is consequence of open source.
This is the consequence of closed source. If Elasticsearch were still open source, then Amazon wouldn't have had any reason to do this. Elastic is getting exactly what they deserve.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the consequence of closed source. If Elasticsearch were still open source, then Amazon wouldn't have had any reason to do this. Elastic is getting exactly what they deserve.
Open source didn't go far enough in this case. It should have mandated the platform itself - from the billing pieces, to the hardware imaging, user management, and more - was all entirely open source.