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Re:Open Distro for Elasticsearch by anth_anm on Monday March 11, 2019 @11:09PM (#19365046)
> It makes smaller scale open source more commercially viable because you won't attract the attention of the providers that would come in a take your business.

Small scale open source isn't technologically viable.

> In the past they haven't seemed to be willing to contribute to the OSS

They are extremely hostile to the idea.

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Re:Open Distro for Elasticsearch by ldubost on Monday March 11, 2019 @11:37PM (#19365204)
How is small scale open source not technologically viable ? There are tons of small open source companies that build great niche open source products which are technologically competitive. I run such a tech/business (XWiki) for 15 years now. They just are not known and don't interest VCs unless you are ready to start going open core. However it is possible to be sustainable, just don't expect to be startup-rich.
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Re:Open Distro for Elasticsearch by anth_anm on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @12:28AM (#19365429)
I'm not going to use FOSS that doesn't have a strong community around, at least not for anything major.
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