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Re:Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commerc... by xandroo on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:46AM (#25848604)
In this case, it appears you’re talking about a billion dollar hotdog.

> In June 2018, Elastic filed for an initial public offering with an estimated valuation of between 1.5 and 3 billion dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch

> Schuurman is Elastic’s biggest shareholder with a 19 percent stake valued at $1.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Banon, the chief executive officer, owns 12 percent of the Mountain View, California-based company.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elastic-software-founder-doub...

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Re:Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commerc... by bluefox on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:55AM (#25848735)
Seems you're reading too much into what I said. I wasn't talking about a metaphorical hotdog, nor was I talking about the Elastic case. The post makes no mention of it either, people on HN just assume it was about it because of the timing (and maybe it was, but I am talking about the general issue of free software). Personally I don't care about companies like Elastic or Amazon, anyway, and I look at it from the point of view of a single programmer writing software.
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