Open Source Needs Open Source Companies

“At AWS, we believe that maintainers of an open source project have a responsibility to ensure that the primary open source distribution… does not advantage any one company over another. ” If a scrappy, dedicated company like Elastic has a license that leans customers toward paying for the services that keep ElasticSearch growing, secure, and relevant — great! Poor AWS, complaining that it doesn’t have quite enough advantages over smaller, specialized software companies.

Source: blog.jessitron.com