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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by ignoramous on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:10PM (#30366484)
If anything AWS has increased its co-operation with F/OSS businesses of late and this clear shift in strategy was apparent in product / partnership announcements leading up to 2021 re:Invent. AWS, I believe, realise the F/OSS ecosystem mustn't be taken undue advantage of. I mean, AWS stands a good chance of getting caught in a vehement backlash (let alone sporadic bad PR) from the developer community, who ironically form the basis of an entire industry AWS sells into and operates in.

With Microsoft + GitHub intensifying their investments in F/OSS, AWS had to play ball. It is smart, not petty on anyone's part.

Judging from the tone of the article, I am glad Elastic is content in their current business relationship with AWS. Hopefully, the companies also find an agreement to have AWS' OpenSearch fork merged back in, as well.

disclaimer: ex-AWS, but zero insider information.

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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by pabs3 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @09:49PM (#30368989)
If the rumours here on HN are true they need to start working on giving back some of their internal patches too. I think they also need to start providing funding to FLOSS projects too, and doing something like Google Project Zero.
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