(This is my perception of how some feel, it's not how I feel, I've no dog in the fight)
They leech from open source without giving much back.
They have a fairly interesting approach to work rights, unionisation and there have been a a large number of worker complaints around the world (oth they employ a large number of workers so that might be expected).
Treatment of suppliers - they are ruthless (but that's a megacorp rule of thumb).
> They leech from open source without giving much back.
So, you’re saying an open source developer shouldn’t take a job contributing to open source because the company historically has a reputation of not contributing?
(In the language community, it is recognized that Amazon used to not contribute to Java at all and now is one of the major contributors. This probably hasn’t hurt in recruiting contributors for other languages.)
Amongst other things, they use their marketplace to collect data on which 3rd party resellers are making money, then they implement the product themselves and put the 3rd party out of business, resulting in an anti-competitive trend towards monopoly.
They leech from open source without giving much back.
They have a fairly interesting approach to work rights, unionisation and there have been a a large number of worker complaints around the world (oth they employ a large number of workers so that might be expected).
Treatment of suppliers - they are ruthless (but that's a megacorp rule of thumb).