{"id":7721,"date":"2019-03-21T00:13:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7721"},"modified":"2019-03-21T00:13:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:13:29","slug":"what-the-fork-amazon-the-new-stack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/21\/what-the-fork-amazon-the-new-stack\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Fork, Amazon? &#8211; The New Stack"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Had Amazon really been interested in truly changing their ways, as Microsoft has proven\u00a0<a class=\"ext-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/10\/10\/17959978\/microsoft-makes-its-60000-patents-open-source-to-help-linux\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">time and again<\/a>, and delivering a truly, valuable and much-needed open source community \u2014 they could have started like Microsoft and Google by open sourcing some of\u00a0<strong>its own<\/strong>\u00a0proprietary technology. Goodness knows that open source cloud has seen its share of difficulty from Solaris, to CloudStack, and even OpenStack. Why not open source parts of YOUR core business? Makes me doubt the real motivations behind your \u201cOpen Distro.\u201d It\u2019s really easy to offer someone else\u2019s technology for free, I suppose.<br \/>\nAnd that\u2019s why I understand Redis, MongoDB, and other companies like InfluxData who found themselves having to change their licenses or close source some premium features to be able to build a sustainable business, and protect themselves from such cynical and hostile corporate behavior.<br \/>\nPreaching open source to a vibrant open source company with deep roots in the OSS values \u2014 that has been fully transparent about their needs to monetize and maintain a stellar product, and make dubious claims about its authenticity is simply disingenuous. This is Amazon seeing someone\u2019s shiny toy, and just wanting it for themselves.\u00a0 MINE MINE MINE. This is called a fork.<br \/>\nAnd this is the dark side of open source. It is the adverse effect we would like the world of open source to be devoid of, as it will have destructive effects on everything that has been built and may be conceptualized and innovated under the auspices of open source.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thenewstack.io\/what-the-fork-amazon\/\">What the Fork, Amazon? &#8211; The New Stack<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had Amazon really been interested in truly changing their ways, as Microsoft has proven\u00a0time and again, and delivering a truly, valuable and much-needed open source community \u2014 they could have started like Microsoft and Google by open sourcing some of\u00a0its own\u00a0proprietary technology. Goodness knows that open source cloud has seen its share of difficulty from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/21\/what-the-fork-amazon-the-new-stack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What the Fork, Amazon? &#8211; The New Stack&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}