AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by swat535 on Friday January 22, 2021 @11:29AM (#25873072)

The OP is isn't ashamed but more frustrated because he wanted to do good for the world and is disappointed by the fact that he may not be able to now because gree corporations like Amazon will take all the hard earned work of contributors and profit from it, thus breaking the spirit of open source. At least that's how I interpreted his comment..

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by eins1234 on Friday January 22, 2021 @04:38PM (#25876640)

Yeah, I think the fundamental problem we're seeing here is how difficult it is for creators of open source projects to effectively capture the value they create in the world, especially at the higher end of the scale of _extremely_ popular projects that gain widespread adoption and create a mind-blowing amount of value, like Elasticsearch.

I would argue that by releasing a project as open source, we create more value in society than by releasing as proprietary.

An ideal society imo should distribute rewards relative value created in order to incentivize and maximize value creation.

Our society does a pretty good job of rewarding and incentivizing value creation for proprietary projects, but seems to do a horrible job of incentivizing value creation through open source projects.

I think it's in society's best interest for open source creators to be rewarded every bit as handsomely for creating value in the world as creators of proprietary projects, if not more, so we can incentivize the creation of more open source projects.

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by shawnz on Saturday January 23, 2021 @12:36AM (#25879962)

> I would argue that by releasing a project as open source, we create more value in society than by releasing as proprietary.

> An ideal society imo should distribute rewards relative value created in order to incentivize and maximize value creation.

Isn't that exactly the point of capitalism and the reason why proprietorship is possible?

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Re:AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana by shawnz on Friday January 22, 2021 @07:39PM (#25878293)

How is it contrary to the spirit of open source if greedy corporations like Amazon use their market forces to spread your work to a bigger audience?

That is exactly in the spirit of open source, which is what I believe the parent poster is saying.

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