Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet...
by tracer4201 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:40PM
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Many of the folks who wrote the systems or languages you use every day work at these big companies. Didn't James Gosling work for Amazon at some point?
>Also totally fine to point out the parasitic players.
Who are the parasites?
These bad-faith posts that are really just unconstructive rants are turning this site into Reddit.
Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet...
by bartimus on Friday April 26, 2019 @04:52AM
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> Who are the parasites?
There can exist a mutual beneficial symbiosis between companies and the open source community. But at some point the symbiotic behavior can become parasitic, causing harm. I think it's super important when such behaviors get pointed out (here at HN).
Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet...
by _msw_ on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:04PM
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> Didn't James Gosling work for Amazon at some point?
He currently does.
It's not their code. Linux didn't come from a company for example. The list goes on.
The amount of code they give back is peanuts compared to the amount of code they benefitted from to build their businesses. No need to feel guilty whatsoever to use it. Also totally fine to point out the parasitic players.