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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by dodobirdlord on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:57PM (#25866893)
What downside exists for Elastic from making this change? If AWS makes valuable contributions on their fork, Elastic will absorb them, but the converse is no longer true. If the downside is that the AWS hosted ElasticSearch service will become successful, well, that was happening anyway before the relicensing.
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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by liuliu on Friday January 22, 2021 @01:48AM (#25869114)
I don’t see a path for absorbing and relicense. Especially if the core code method signature diverges in the future. It is going to be a lot of trouble for Elastic to absorb non-trivial contributions from the fork.
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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by test-account on Friday January 22, 2021 @02:25AM (#25869327)
Aws has an advantage of the manpower. They can easily move ahead of origin and ES can never catch up.
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