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by solardev 1399 days ago
Isn't that what they're doing? Providing a monetizable system around open source software. It's the Vercel/Next.js model
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I wonder if AWS is a sleeping crocodile ready to eat all these dev-focused paas companies up (by competing or takeovers) in a while. Maybe they are waiting to see who wins first.
I’m not sure where this movement went but efforts like SSPL [1] and similar aim to make it hard for cloud providers to resell an open source product as a service.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/29/the-crusade-against-open-s...

Many of them, like Vercel, still use AWS under the hood. AWS has Amplify too. No matter what you use, Bezos wins...