[thedougd]

It's not a philosophical argument at all. Businesses embrace commercially supported open source software because it makes business sense to do so. The door of interoperability swings both directions. Open source vendors frequently acquire customers through users who 1) are moving from another compatible vendor 2) trialed their open source software for an extended period of time, often in production, and 3) from introduction by highly innovative teams in a larger corporation.

When customers see Elastic circling the wagons to remove some of the differentiators of their open source software, they're going to have to reconsider their options.

[toomuchtodo]

Indeed, a new equilibrium must be arrived at, as the existing contract has proven suboptimal (except perhaps for Amazon, in this context). This is why you see many projects (Redis, Elastic) with commercial potential (or actively generating revenue) moving away from open source licenses that allows for AWS to copy and serve their work wholesale without any compensation or rev share, even if they lose some business from doing so. A loss of some business is preferred to a level of business that is unsustainable for an org as a going concern.