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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by parasubvert on Thursday January 21, 2021 @05:43PM (#25865574)
You’re confused. This isn’t about crushing an OSS project: it’s about ensuring there actually IS an open source project.

What Elastic is doing with its licensing is not open source.

You might argue that if Elastic Inc dies then the project dies, but then it wasn’t a very robust project.

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by hrktb on Friday January 22, 2021 @02:04AM (#25869223)
It doesn’t seem unreasonable to me that a project would die if it’s original developper community dies. Some projects survive that shift, but it’s the exception more than the rule.
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