> don't give back anything even remotely related to their business model.
Why should they? It would be nice if they did but they'd be directly enabling their competition. That's not what open source is all about as far as I understand it.
> people won't want AWS/GCP/Azure to slap a UI on top of their free open-source product and resell it
If it wasn't open-source it won't be as popular as it is in the first place, Redis is also using ton of open source software or libraries for free.
Not defending AWS/GCP/Azure, I actually got my software used when i was young by a large company for free (not even a mention- Still using it i think, 5M+ Play Store Downloads), but that is the spirit of open source
I don't see how that bit would be a problem. The market size, yes, it's a problem, but it's supposed to be a cloud service, there is no loss on the clients being open source.
> Indie at its core. While it’s my personal opinion, many developers appreciate tools that are not backed by tech giants (for example React backed by Facebook, and Angular by Google), but rather grows from a community and that is why it is highly oriented to developer needs.
This is a great point - and quite true in my experience as well. I would not build a business using an open source project backed by a tech giant.
no, thanks
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