Two wrongs don't make a right.

My thought on @elastic and @awscloud.
A thread:

@elastic relicense was in their rights.

But they went back on their words and betrayed the trust of the open source community. @QuinnyPig kindly made available to everyone their change of terms which is unacceptable: https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1350205491750662146

@awscloud fork was in their rights.

But claiming that they "step up for a truly open source" and fail to see that they contribute only for profit by using open source software as a stepping stone for their business is a very dangerous bias. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/stepping-up-for-a-truly-open-source-elasticsearch/

The choices of those bigs, in the end, leaves us with a poorer environment where only big tech giants are able to profit around oss projects and make it more difficult for any other to create value and innovation.

Ultimately we need to fill the gap of software licensing to avoid open source companies choosing to close their software as the only way to survive.

We need to be able to meet the needs of people who give their time and companies that want to make a living in this environment.