AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by majormajor on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:15PM (#25865958)

Having "open source" vs "source available" or whatever you want to call the new license isn't a guaranteed right either, so if there's no problem with the one then what's the problem with the other?

Would you prefer more software to be released openly or less? Cause if you're making moves like Amazon did with their ES service, you're pushing the world towards "less."

I'm not too concerned with this, but it's strange to me that people are both trying to keep OSS licenses "pure" and advocating that companies release less of their code in the first place...

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by parasubvert on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:34PM (#25866179)

I would prefer that companies stop abusing their communities by leveraging them and then discarding them when they have enough power to do so.

OSS was never about source availability - that’s just a form of cheap escrow and has fairly limited value. Open source is about user freedom to do whatever they want with the software - guaranteed freedoms.

This isn’t about “purity”, it’s about using a label on the tin that says “FREEDOM INSIDE” and then peeling the label off and telling a subset of users to pay up or give away any software code you’ve ever used to touch my software. We used to call that a “bait and switch” to be polite , though really it’s more like a shakedown.

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