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Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by flukus on Thursday January 10, 2019 @12:20AM (#18871724)
> especially if you were thinking about working on a game

Why games especially? That seems to be the one area the would be absolutely free of any conflict of interest with amazon.

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Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by Pfhreak on Thursday January 10, 2019 @12:29AM (#18871755)
Amazon has a game studio producing games. They've publicly announced Breakaway, New World, and Crucible as three titles.

Why games are different than other areas (e.g. why aren't web services called out separately with their own policy while games are? I'm not sure.)

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Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by throwaway1280 on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:45AM (#18873422)
Yeah, it's really weird. Amazon has other IP-producing divisions, and even though Amazon Studios is very powerful, there's nothing preventing people from making their own video content. I wonder if it's just down to whoever leads that game studio pushing for such a rule.
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Re:AWS gives open source the middle finger? by Zarel on Thursday January 10, 2019 @12:30AM (#18871757)
I imagine it has to do with Amazon Lumberyard:

https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/

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