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Re:Elasticsearch is open source, again by aseipp on Friday August 30, 2024 @10:21AM (#41401014)
You can call any decision you want crazy, but it's not relevant in a matter of trademark, and they talked about this at the time of the original license change. The word "Elastic" isn't enough on its own. In contrast Amazon was literally offering a product identical to theirs (quite literally) that was also using the exact same name "Elasticsearch".

If Elastic the company sold a product called "Elastic Amazon EC2" and it was an API compatible copy of EC2 cloud compute, you can reasonably assume that Amazon would be pissed off about it.

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Re:Elasticsearch is open source, again by jen20 on Friday August 30, 2024 @12:19PM (#41402134)
It might not be sufficient to trigger trademark violation, but that doesn’t stop it being a dick move.

Edit: As was Amazon's choice to offer a service named that once Elasticsearch was established, to be clear.

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