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by dragonsh 2482 days ago
Releasing a software with license-encumbered code, using specialized marketing to vote down a comment critical to company's product, justifying the lawsuit for copyright infringement similar to Oracle. I think users can see through it.

Let's wait for the results of this case it will make it clear that if someone wants to use ELK, they should purchase a license or use Amazon version (as they will fight the case, a small startup can't have budget to even defend).

For a small development firm its better they use really open source product like Solr, Vespa or Lucene directly with OpenJDK, not the oracle JDK. Looking at this can only say Richard Stallman is a visionary and saw this when he defined Free Software and accompanying licenses.