[blibble]

I suspect the era just before the cloud was the peak of open source software

these days you'd have to be a fool to start a company offering an open source server based product under a liberal license

Amazon is a parasite, plain and simple

[paxys]

Large companies have monetized open source for decades, ever since open source has existed. Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon..the list is endless. I can't imagine why people will quit the open source movement now because they realize they can't make money from it – that has always been true. Writing FOSS to get rich has always been an oxymoron.

[arp242]

It's not about "getting rich"; it's about being able to make a living. Those are not the same things.

[tannhaeuser]

The whole point of "The Cloud" is to profit from F/OSS. And Elastic, Redis, Mongo, and also RedHat have indeed already adapted their licenses or offerings accordingly.