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by jillesvangurp
1015 days ago
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It's a repeat of what Elasticsearch did to their community. Basically, their product got forked (Opensearch) and the fork is now popular. Result: access denied on a sizable percentage of new users that start off using the fork and will likely never transition to the closed source thing. As a sales strategy it's dumb. I see this as an Elasticsearch/Opensearch consultant. A lot of people reaching out to me for help with that, seem to now default to starting with opensource, i.e. Opensearch. And since a lot of them are in Amazon (who created the fork) they make that really easy. Those are people who will likely never become Elastic customers. The same will happen with Teraform. Many new users will default to the open fork. A lot of existing users might migrate to that. There are some other examples: - Oracle lost control of Hudson when it became Jenkins. Hudson is now a footnote in history. - Likewise with OpenOffice, which now rots away at the Apache Foundation. LibreOffice is the main product now. |
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Not exactly the same as I understand. Amazon were providing Elasticsearch as a service with nothing in return. Fair enough. Although there did seem to be some issues about alleged ripping off code and trademark infringement.
However as Elasticsearch needed to remain a viable business, they changed the licence.
https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-license-change-aws