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Re:AWS co-branding guide forbids mentioning multi-cloud by lonelappde on Thursday November 14, 2019 @07:36PM (#21541167)
Why don't Microsoft Lawyers know this?

https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/

Nor Oracle?

https://www.oracle.com/partners/index.html

Nor Google? https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/9028757?hl=en

The actual reason is that Amazon doesn't want anyone making a buck of Amazon's name. They are ruthless about capturing all the value in a relationship. Amazon does things like require 1+yr free trials of enterprise software and charging for the privilege of not being under NDA.

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Re:AWS co-branding guide forbids mentioning multi-cloud by dbcurtis on Thursday November 14, 2019 @09:29PM (#21541737)
Guess what! My wife is a lawyer at Oracle. And she knows. And guess what else? Marketing owns the wording of marketing collateral, and can ignore the advice of the lawyers, and then the lawyers get to clean up the resulting problems.
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