[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?

[KingMob]

Well, ElasticSearch is the topic of the link.

But specifically, those two are examples of companies who started off FOSS, then got exploited by AWS.

Every FS-focused person gives them sh!7, but leaves Amazon off the hook because they exploited under the FS rules, which is an inversion of who actually does harm in the world.

[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.