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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by nine_k on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:21PM (#25867924)
Like, contributing back? AFAICT Amazon did contribute back to ES, in the form of code.

Running a profitable business to service free software has nothing to do with the philosophy.

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by germansm on Friday January 22, 2021 @06:19PM (#25877572)
"When the service launched, imagine our surprise when the Amazon CTO tweeted that the service was released in collaboration with us. It was not. And over the years, we have heard repeatedly that this confusion persists. NOT OK." https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-AWS
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