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> And I think the value that various cloud companies and tech companies derive from open source by far exceeds their contributions to it.

Isn't that how literally all economic exchange works? Why do you think your boss pays your salary?

If the argument is that Amazon should invest 110% of their OSS-derived profits back into OSS, then OSS ceases to have any value to them. They would simply write their own closed-source software, which would be trivial for a company of Amazon's size, and we'd all be poorer off for not having OSS. Getting one percent of someone's profit is better than getting zero percent.