Here is my summary of whats happening with Elastic and AWS. tl;dr - Tight Open Core makes for unsustainable community resources, AWS didn't have much choice, and Elastic doesn't either. Free Software is the only winner.https://medium.com/@adamhjk/free-software-is-the-only-winner-in-elastic-nv-vs-aws-9416f2a0a7f5 …
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Replying to @adamhjk
Open Source requires equal use and contribution. The balance was broken from the day commercial entities started using OS tools. How can this be fixed without giving up the spirit of OS?
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Replying to @marenkay
I think you're wrong that Open Source requires equal use and contribution. It does not. It requires that the software uphold the four freedoms, as they show up in the OSD. The resource is available, what you do with it (and whether you tend to it via contribution) is up to you.
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If you want to have a collaborative community resource, which can be sustained by the community over a long period of time, you have to decide to do that. You need institutions of governance you can trust, and equality of opportunity for things like monetization.
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There will never be balanced contribution and value from use. That would skew the cost/benefit analysis sharply toward everyone building their own bespoke things.
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Replying to @adamhjk
But doesn't that mean we have to look at other ways of sustaining Open Source projects that are central in a sense of them being part of the infrastructure we all rely on? Current foundation model is not evoking community trust but vendor trust.
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I think you have to break the topic into pieces. The scale difference in having something like Elastic be a sustainable community resource (it is not), is very different to "who maintains openssl". I agree that, outside of things like the ASF, most foundations aren't better
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Things like
@tidelift or Webpack's opencollective example can show how direct funding of developers can work. At one scale, I think that model is the most attractive.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
These are good ones, and they would be even better if the Linux Foundation would have jump behind those. Though I still hope it will move towards that.
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