<story><title>Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor: Open Source Devs</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/open-source-betrayed-industry-leaders-accuse-amazon-of-playing-a-rigged-game-with-aws-67177bc748b7?gi=356d74c0b36e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capkutay</author><text>Step 1: Launch company to monetize open source hoping to get rich in IPO.&lt;p&gt;Step 2: Be shocked when Amazon uses your open licenses exactly how they&amp;#x27;re allowed to&lt;p&gt;Step 3: Write angry letter about Amazon monetizing the project you were trying to monetize.&lt;p&gt;Open source isn&amp;#x27;t meant to be a get-rich quick scheme for founders to generate cheap buzz off their &amp;#x27;free&amp;#x27; project. It&amp;#x27;s literally designed to be forked and used in whatever way the user&amp;#x2F;developer sees fit. You can&amp;#x27;t just unrealistically hope that a large company won&amp;#x27;t exploit it in whatever way they can.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>burtonator</author><text>What I find most sad is that most of the people on HN will rail against how evil Google is (or any other company) yet happily use their Open Source code and not complain that they&amp;#x27;re benefiting from what they claim to despise.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s really a tragedy of the commons.&lt;p&gt;Users on average refuse to pay for software&amp;#x2F;web apps directly so companies have to find other alternative ways to get funding and make money.&lt;p&gt;People complain about Facebook constantly and how they&amp;#x27;re selling their data yet these users wouldn&amp;#x27;t sign up to pay $2-3 per month for Facebook directly.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor: Open Source Devs</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/open-source-betrayed-industry-leaders-accuse-amazon-of-playing-a-rigged-game-with-aws-67177bc748b7?gi=356d74c0b36e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capkutay</author><text>Step 1: Launch company to monetize open source hoping to get rich in IPO.&lt;p&gt;Step 2: Be shocked when Amazon uses your open licenses exactly how they&amp;#x27;re allowed to&lt;p&gt;Step 3: Write angry letter about Amazon monetizing the project you were trying to monetize.&lt;p&gt;Open source isn&amp;#x27;t meant to be a get-rich quick scheme for founders to generate cheap buzz off their &amp;#x27;free&amp;#x27; project. It&amp;#x27;s literally designed to be forked and used in whatever way the user&amp;#x2F;developer sees fit. You can&amp;#x27;t just unrealistically hope that a large company won&amp;#x27;t exploit it in whatever way they can.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eanzenberg</author><text>Yes! You can&amp;#x27;t have it both ways. You can&amp;#x27;t have random people submit IP to your codebase and then own the monetization of the end result.</text></comment>