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Re:Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana by nopzor on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:35AM (#25777551)
contributing back can mean monetarily. i’m sure elastic would be willing to sell a commercial license to a cloud provider if the deal makes sense.
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Re:Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana by brasetvik on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:37AM (#25777582)
They already do. https://www.elastic.co/about/press/elastic-partners-with-ali...
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Re:Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana by arpinum on Thursday January 14, 2021 @11:55AM (#25778732)
Thats fine, but then don't title the blog post "Doubling down on open", make it "Creating a more profitable business model".
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Re:Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana by christophilus on Thursday January 14, 2021 @12:32PM (#25779296)
Those aren’t necessarily contradictory titles. Large OSS projects require funding, or they run a serious risk of stagnation. If there are massively profitable corporations using OSS and contributing nothing back, or even actively competing with the project, then a more profitable business model may be the best thing an OSS project can do to ensure its longevity.
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