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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by growse on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:46PM (#30366896)
> Except AWS is not forking open source for their own use. They sell it and get a lot of profit from it.

They sell a hosted service that uses the software. They're not selling the software.

Pretty difficult to see how a company building a SaaS business around some software is not "for their own use".

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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by stonemetal12 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:31PM (#30367331)
You also never hear anyone complain about the thousands of hosting providers that build their business around the LAMP stack. I wonder if it is because Amazon is so big, or just the lack of competition.
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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by ethbr0 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @08:46PM (#30368585)
I think it's a general sense of unease with the probability that future F/OSS looks like "{Project}, sponsored by Amazon" due to cloud market dynamics and size.

Coupling that with the fact that, in the past, F/OSS project control or domination by a single party hasn't turned out well.

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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by madeofpalk on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @08:44PM (#30368577)
It is definitely because Amazon/AWS is so big. That's the biggest part of the complaint.
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