[whoknew1122]

Or, a situation about which you might want to ruminate:

A customer is doing a full migration to the cloud. They're already using FLOSS project X on-prem and asks 'Hey, <cloud vendor>, project X is a super important part of our environment? We can't move forward unless you support it. Also, can you manage this for me? I'd really prefer not to roll my own servers.'

What would YOU, as the cloud vendor, do? Give up the on the business (both upfront migration costs and down line usage and maintenance costs), or legally exercise the license that project X's creator CHOSE?

Also, consider that, at your scale (you being the cloud vendor), if 1 customer is having this issue, it's impacting tens if not hundreds of others.

As someone who works for AWS and fields feature requests from customers constantly, the above situation very common.

[shi314]

As a trillion dollar company, it can acquire open source project that is vital for it's customer base rather than leeching of that project. You shouldn't make unethical practices of companies as necessary evil.