Similar to what happened before with, eg, Linux, big vendors will hire those maintainers. Good code isn't going away. It's simply going to be written by communities comprised of self-interested actors rather than one self-interested vendor. There's nothing healthy abt the latter
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JM: I literally cannot think of a single one. I can think of a few that they hired who ceased being maintainers after they went to work for AWS.
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Replying to @fuzzychef @johnmark and
This has more to do with AWS being a low-margin business, than with any kind of bad faith, but the result is the same: they suck money out of the ecosystem without contributing code.
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Replying to @pwramsey @fuzzychef and
Very much so, but reality of Amazon's contributions so far have never come even close to the promises, and the promises fall far short of being a sustainable community participant. Especially given how their existence makes other business models for employing PG devs less viable.
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Replying to @Dee_Marketing @AndresFreundTec and
So...not open source, then? :-) What you’re describing is called “proprietary software.” It’s 100% fine. But let’s not conflate it with open source. Vendors who want the benefits of open distribution without the $$ implications live in la la land
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Replying to @mjasay @Dee_Marketing and
I don't think it's a the great approach, but I do think that it's possible to tilt the situation a bit away from the big cloud providers on a license basis (say AGPL, except not badly drafted). While staying open source. IMO the downsides are larger than the upsides, but ...
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(note that I don't think any such license would end up actually preventing cloud providers from hosting such software, just possibly making it economically less interesting)
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