Comment by sriku

This seems to offer a criterion to decide the value of a business - if your business ceases to be one by publishing all your source code free to use, then you should look at other business models?

Is ElasticSearch (the company) then just a "bad business model"? Won't Google suffer if Amazon just waits for them to release their code and turns it into a managed service in competition? (Both companies are eminently capable here).