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Re:Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Ser... by josephcsible on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:05PM (#28465026)
If they would have been closed source from the get-go, they'd have even fewer customers than they do today with Amazon "stealing" all of them.
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Re:Amazon Elasticsearch Service Is Now Amazon OpenSearch Ser... by Sebb767 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:21PM (#28465137)
Possibly, I didn't refute that (and I actually agree). However, the point that this fork would likely not have happened without them being open source is completely valid.
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