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> 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".



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.


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.


It is definitely because Amazon/AWS is so big. That's the biggest part of the complaint.




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