I'll never forgive Elastic for locking basic security features behind their paid licence. Over the years probably millions of people had their data compromised due to that (due to people inadvertently leaving instances on the public internet - having auth enabled by default would have helped a lot)
I've heard a few anecdotes suggesting some people took it seriously, but while we're sharing those: my company actually adopted ElasticSearch since the license change and never seriously considered OpenSearch.
If you're making the call then that's really one anecdote, not hundreds.
If a "DevOps" company purely provide deployment services, and doesn't offer a managed Redis service, SSPL makes no difference.
It seems that the term "DevOps/services" is a way to refer to companies that offer Redis as managed service, without calling them "cloud providers". This type of service is what a large part of the IT community is againt, and that licenses like AGPL/SSPL try to prevent.
Maybe 20% of the companies I work with have switched.
Smells like opportunity!
What's the solution here?
The messaging against elastic style licences and even copyleft licenses is too convenient for me to trust as being 100% genuine.
There isn't a 'purer' form of open source which does exactly what you want with respect to big companies using the code.
You can be in favour of licensing that restricts Amazon or Microsoft's right to use your work. But that position is detrimental to, not supportive of, open source, since such a license would not be open source.
Or when they infected their previously open source components like logstash?
That's why most open source maintainers use truly open-source licenses for their software - BSD, MIT, Apache2, and they will be happy if Amazon, Google or Microsoft builds successful product on top of their open-source software, since this gives them the desired recognition.
AWS got Elastic's goodies for free. They just came in and gobbled up all of that value for themselves like vultures. Meanwhile the people putting in the work effectively got robbed.
Small companies should stop doing open source and switch to source available + MAU/ARR restriction clauses.
What on earth? Elastic is a multi-billion dollar company. They are no indie startup, scrappy underdog nor are they victims here.
AWS took the high road during this fiasco despite Elastic's mudslinging and flailing about.
> AWS took the high road during this fiasco despite Elastic's mudslinging and flailing about.
They didn't start as a multi-billion dollar company. In fact, AWS started shipping their Elasticsearch Service in 2015. Public records show that Elastic's annual revenue in 12 months after their IPO in 2018 was ~200m with <1000 employees.
I'd argue that Elastic is a multi-billion dollar company _in spite_ of AWS.