> Elastic built a popular product off the work of countless open source contributors. That's how they became a market leader in this product space. That's simply not true. Elasticsearch and Kibana are primarily built by…
> Well, they DID actually contribute patches as the whole ES project was 'upstream-first', this is mentioned in the post with proofs. Elasticsearch has 35000 pull requests merged. Amazon did 9 of those giving them a…
> Its arguable that Elastic simply hasn’t come up with an open-source compatible business model, and that’s fine. But its not Amazon’s fault. Elastic has indeed found a profitable business model: they have their own…
That's not the exactly what's been happening. I'll give you a more accurate timeline Elastic: Hey here is some software. You are free to use it without paying us Community: Awesome! ... years go by and the community is…
> Elastic built a popular product off the work of countless open source contributors. That's how they became a market leader in this product space. That's simply not true. Elasticsearch and Kibana are primarily built by…
> Well, they DID actually contribute patches as the whole ES project was 'upstream-first', this is mentioned in the post with proofs. Elasticsearch has 35000 pull requests merged. Amazon did 9 of those giving them a…
> Its arguable that Elastic simply hasn’t come up with an open-source compatible business model, and that’s fine. But its not Amazon’s fault. Elastic has indeed found a profitable business model: they have their own…
That's not the exactly what's been happening. I'll give you a more accurate timeline Elastic: Hey here is some software. You are free to use it without paying us Community: Awesome! ... years go by and the community is…