I am just saying your post hugely misrepresented the argument.
That you think the argument is a load of bollocks changes nothing about that.
Not to give out advice, but if your aim isn’t to learn and debate and change minds and be changed, what’s your point? Do you just want to make noise or something?
I would like to properly characterize the argument to understand all sides. Because I want more great software to exist in the world. My belief is that the way to do this is to have people create and share, of their own free will. And I want to learn if there’s a better way.
So correcting your enormous straw-man of misinformation is "noise"? Oh just sod off with your bollocks.
So maybe they should stop releasing future contributions as OSS? Oh, wait…
It’s cool being a programmer because we have such autonomy over our actions and our creations.
It’s perfectly fine to sell your software. There’s trillions of dollars worth of companies that do that.
But I make sure I eat through other methods so I’m able to donate my time.
If Elastic doesn’t want Amazon to use their software, then they shouldn’t release it as OSS. It’s quite simple.
But it’s ridiculous, I think, to claim Amazon is doing anything wrong by abiding by the license.
Elastic shouldn’t feel that Amazon is eating their pie because they chose to put their pie out with a “free pie for everyone” under ASL. If they feel bad, that may be so, but their feelings aren’t as important as what their intellect should set up.