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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by gogopuppygogo on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:01PM (#25868167)
It’s not a chilling effect. It’s how value is exchanged in a free market.

Open source makes sense when many companies benefit economically from sharing resources to develop common software/tooling.

Open sourcing code from inception can lead to adoption and create profits.

At some point that code may be more valuable to another company in some way and they profit from it.

I don’t see Linus Torvalds complaining about companies that profit from Linux but then again Elastic Search has shareholders to answer to and their trademark has been violated.

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by skolsuper on Friday January 22, 2021 @12:04AM (#25868508)
They're literally describing the chilling effect. It shows a lack of imagination if you think this "free market" is the only way to create valuable software.

PS. In a truly free market, there would be no enforcement of license violations except that which companies could muster themselves, i.e. Elastic would be able to hire mercenaries to loot and pillage AWS' data centres

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