I’m not so sure, they are also continuing to build a walled garden elk hosting alternative and already invested a lot of development into open distro for elasticsearch.
People often run this software on their compute, so obviously eliminating proprietary license complications makes that an easier option for their customers to deploy, and redirects some of that licensing money into the customer’s aws spend.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy there is a FOSS fork, but at the same time it feels like Amazon again has eaten another company’s lunch while feigning innocence.
You are not so sure that the world is not black and white? I assure you it's in color. Perhaps we do live in The Giver and only a few people realize this after all.
It's still myopic to say everything Amazon does is for the greenback. Engineers at Amazon likely pushed for OpenSearch because it provides personal growth to work on open products. Working on closed source may mean you can't bring as much knowledge to another job. It's likely less people will use your work and that may be less satisfying. You may like to switch jobs for reasons other than money. And to retain employees, Amazon may agree to allow employees work on open source.
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I’m not so sure, they are also continuing to build a walled garden elk hosting alternative and already invested a lot of development into open distro for elasticsearch.
People often run this software on their compute, so obviously eliminating proprietary license complications makes that an easier option for their customers to deploy, and redirects some of that licensing money into the customer’s aws spend.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy there is a FOSS fork, but at the same time it feels like Amazon again has eaten another company’s lunch while feigning innocence.
You are not so sure that the world is not black and white? I assure you it's in color. Perhaps we do live in The Giver and only a few people realize this after all.
I agree, it's in color. In this case green.
That's just as myopic. We all do many things daily with no expectation of monetary reward.
This was never about what we all do. The topic was Amazon OpenSearch.
If you are arguing that Amazon has no expectation of monetary reward, then I have a bridge I'd like to sell you!
It's still myopic to say everything Amazon does is for the greenback. Engineers at Amazon likely pushed for OpenSearch because it provides personal growth to work on open products. Working on closed source may mean you can't bring as much knowledge to another job. It's likely less people will use your work and that may be less satisfying. You may like to switch jobs for reasons other than money. And to retain employees, Amazon may agree to allow employees work on open source.