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AWS exec: Our understanding of open source is changing (www.theregister.com)
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Doesn't happen very often, but I agree with AWS. Open source has very much become a vendor-sponsored affair and there are fewer and fewer actual community-driven projects.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Inside AWS we have the concept of strategic open source projects. We require the business owner inside a service team to report on a quarterly basis about the health of those projects. We’re doing that so we know that they’re paying attention to it. We don’t want to learn that this thing that’s really important is maintained by a guy living in a basement on public assistance. That is not acting in the best interests of our customers.”

They could like pay the guy to maintain it, when they are making massive profits from it. But I know that would be too much to ask for from Amazon

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