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Re:Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangabl... by tveita on Friday April 22, 2016 @11:32AM (#11549914)
I am curious why you "wouldn't have imagined this possible", is the reason technical or political?
Re:Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangabl... by serge2k on Friday April 22, 2016 @07:50PM (#11553357)
Political.

Amazon doesn't open source things, as a general rule. It can be done but it is a lot of jumping through hoops and they generally need good reasons to do it (as opposed to a lack of good reasons not to).