Thanks for sharing; I wrote the post and also submitted the distro to HN. In most cases (apparently per HN policy), blog posts that announce new services are removed in favor of direct links to the offering.
Maybe it would be more honest to say "Forcing open source backing companies to avoid open core that is hated by AWS" ;) ?
(btw: I'm not associated with Elastic except loving their open source projects)
> Unfortunately, since June 2018, we have witnessed significant intermingling of proprietary code into the code base.
And you mean the x-pack stuff?
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/LICENSE...
Interesting, wasn't aware of it.