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Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet... by tracer4201 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:40PM (#19753568)
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.

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Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet... by bartimus on Friday April 26, 2019 @04:52AM (#19755748)
> 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).

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Re:Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Compet... by _msw_ on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:04PM (#19753694)
> Didn't James Gosling work for Amazon at some point?

He currently does.

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