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by s5ma6n 1964 days ago
This is good news but due to the nature of widely adopted open-source projects, they are still vulnerable to a similar situation. It is listed that AWS is one of the sponsors of the Rocky Linux. Recently we have seen what happened between elastic and AWS. So, AWS could also pull an IBM and decide to drop it or tie it tightly with AWS services etc.

It is a difficult situation in general and it is a shame that this was one of the most used distros in servers.
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tehbeard 1963 days ago
AWS wouldn't use it to compete with rocky foundation/group, they'd use it to offer a RHEL derivative on their platform.

Funding it to get a pathway to onboard RHEL-like workloads without the costly licence? Worth the change they put down for it.

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JeremyNT 1963 days ago
> Recently we have seen what happened between elastic and AWS. So, AWS could also pull an IBM and decide to drop it or tie it tightly with AWS services etc.

There's a lot of reason to distrust Amazon, but this isn't what ended up happening with Elasticsearch and Kibana. Ultimately, the company Elastic took open source projects, moved them to more restrictive licenses, and Amazon came in and committed to maintaining proper open source forks.

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pjmlp 1963 days ago
They already have it,https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/
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