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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by marcinzm on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:33PM (#25865454)
Your right to do something does not remove my right to call you a dick for doing it. There is a large difference between what is legally allowed and what should be encouraged for the good of society.
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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by imgabe on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:47PM (#25865634)
Sure you can call someone a dick for abiding by the terms of the agreement that you set out, but that doesn't mean you're right.

"Hey here is some software. You are free to use it without paying me."

"Ok, we'll use it and not pay you"

"What, how dare you?! You dick!"

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by petejohnson on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:13PM (#25865932)
That's not the exactly what's been happening. I'll give you a more accurate timeline

Elastic: Hey here is some software. You are free to use it without paying us Community: Awesome!

... years go by and the community is loving it, Elastic is loving it everything is great

AWS: Wow! Free, popular software. Millions of dollars already invested in it so we don't have to. We'll take it for free and sell it.

... years go by

Elastic: Hey AWS! So glad you like our software but we can see that your actions are hurting our business which will hurt the software and the community in the future if we don't do anything. What do you think about making a deal?

AWS: Lol, suck it.

... years go by where other cloud providers make deals with Elastic

Elastic: Okay AWS, from now on we are changing our license so you and other companies similar to yours cannot re-sell it

AWS (and their fans): What, how dare you?! We've made millions by reselling it as our own, and not you are going to restrict us doing exactly that. You dick!

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by kgwgk on Friday January 22, 2021 @05:04AM (#25870178)
> AWS (and their fans): What, how dare you?! We've made millions by reselling it as our own, and not you are going to restrict us doing exactly that. You dick!

The latest event is more like

AWS: Ok, your choice, we'll keep developing and making available an open-source version with the original license.

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