<story><title>AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service</title><url>https://twitter.com/tim_nolet/status/1317061818574082050</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>masukomi</author><text>I really wish, that when COs like Amazon decided to productize a thing they either offered the core developer(s) enough $ to work on it full time (if they wanted) or a job to do that with a guarantee that as long as it was a product, and they wanted to work on it, they&amp;#x27;d be allowed to continue. Problem with offering job is the likelyhood of getting redirected to some other unrelated work.&lt;p&gt;instead of forking they could work with core devs to see if they wanted to support the desired features (potentially with an NDA until release).&lt;p&gt;this big co strategy of &amp;quot;mine. I profit now. everyone who built up this useful thing can suck eggs&amp;quot; really sucks and sucks for the humans and sucks for Open Source.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SquishyPanda23</author><text>&amp;gt; this big co strategy of &amp;quot;mine. I profit now. everyone who built up this useful thing can suck eggs&amp;quot; really sucks and sucks for the humans and sucks for Open Source.&lt;p&gt;I think the software community is having an &amp;quot;I never thought the leopards would eat my face&amp;quot; moment.&lt;p&gt;The community pushed for a long time for licenses that donated labor to corporations because the licenses sounded more &amp;quot;free&amp;quot;, and that flattered their politics.&lt;p&gt;When the corporations actually pick up the value everyone left on the table, the community gets outraged.</text></comment>
<story><title>AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service</title><url>https://twitter.com/tim_nolet/status/1317061818574082050</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>masukomi</author><text>I really wish, that when COs like Amazon decided to productize a thing they either offered the core developer(s) enough $ to work on it full time (if they wanted) or a job to do that with a guarantee that as long as it was a product, and they wanted to work on it, they&amp;#x27;d be allowed to continue. Problem with offering job is the likelyhood of getting redirected to some other unrelated work.&lt;p&gt;instead of forking they could work with core devs to see if they wanted to support the desired features (potentially with an NDA until release).&lt;p&gt;this big co strategy of &amp;quot;mine. I profit now. everyone who built up this useful thing can suck eggs&amp;quot; really sucks and sucks for the humans and sucks for Open Source.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dheera</author><text>Not only that, but there is no mention of the original author on their press release. All they say is &amp;quot;Amazon launches CloudWatch Synthetics Recorder&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;about-aws&amp;#x2F;whats-new&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;amazon-cloudwatch-synthetics-launches-recorder-to-generate-user-flow-scripts-for-canaries&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;about-aws&amp;#x2F;whats-new&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;amazon-cl...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wonder if FOSS licenses can be modified such that if you are claiming in press that you are &amp;quot;launching&amp;quot; something and it is substantially based on something open source you must state the original authors prominently in body of the press release.</text></comment>