[newzisforsukas]

Great, how long until they change the license again?

[troyvit]

Depends on what new tricks ~FAANG~ MAMAA companies come up with to get as much as they can from open source without giving anything back I suppose.

[outop]

Whatever you think of those companies in a wider sense, it's totally inaccurate to suggest that Microsoft, Google or Amazon haven't given anything back to open source.

[KingMob]

Hyperbole aside, they certainly haven't given as much as they've gotten, though.

E.g., remember when Heartbleed hit, and the world learned that OpenSSL was maintained by one person getting only $2000/year for it? Fixing Heartbleed was estimated to cost half a billion dollars world-wide.

[outop]

> Hyperbole aside, they certainly haven't given as much as they've gotten, though.

Agreed, but the point of sharing software is that it's not a zero sum game. The thing you create once is not diminished by me using it many times.

[KingMob]

We still have to pay our bills under capitalism, though. Software copies might be infinite, but money isn't.

[outop]

Of all the people who have to pay their bills under capitalism, why are you specifically concerned about the ones who wrote ElasticSearch and Redis?

[nijave]

Hot take: lots of widely popular open source software only exists because mega corps developed and released it.

Reference: most software in the Apache Foundation and huge portion of the container ecosystem.