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That's a very wide claim. Amazon may not be the most valued type of open source user, but they are on par with most open source infrastructure historically. It's as if they are trying to say that only the creators of an open source project can build a SaaS for it. Tell that to mySQL, Postgres, redis, everything apache (Hadoop, Cassandra(which is based on amazon's DynamoDB whitepaper), Kafka, Zookeeper), every programming language ever (Except maybe C#). It has always been the case that open source infrastructure was built by one group and another completely unrelated group, who are much better at cloud anything, built the SaaS offering for it. If this is Mongo again, it's probably a PR stunt by them to get their failing business model's latest failing hail marry to not completely destroy developer trust (which it will, of course, fail to do). There is really just one thing to complain about Amazon's use of open source, they aren't supporting back enough for projects they are using. That's it. They should be shunned for it, but that's not earthshattering, and it's definitely not a condemnation of other cloud vendors (Microsoft and Google) who support open source massively. |
That was the author's point, was it not?