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Comment by aaronbrethorst

2 days ago

Here's a good discussion from here in 2021 about the fork that colors my perception: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26780848

Yeah Amazon’s motivations aren’t great, but it’s occupying a space that opened up when Elastic changed the license on Elasticsearch. Nobody’s going to create another permissively licensed alternative to it just because they’re annoyed it’s an Amazon project.

  • Amazon, after making its pretty barebones fork, lobbed it off to the Linux Foundation. It ultimately feels lazy and self-serving in a way only a select few companies can pull off.