Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
by jfb on Monday April 12, 2021 @10:02PM
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I mean, Elastic was successful because of license arbitrage; to complain about said arbitrage when Amazon does it is ... well, it's hard to feel a lot of sympathy.
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Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana
by ummonk on Monday April 12, 2021 @10:45PM
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Exactly this. Elastic search took open source code and turned it into a service to profit from it while making improvements to the code. Amazon is doing the same thing, except they’re keeping their contributions truly open source.