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Elastic.co the n'th most valuable company on Earth and controlled by Earth's n'th most wealthy human being, cloned an open-source project, Lucene, made it easie
by zknz 7y ago
Elastic.co the n'th most valuable company on Earth and controlled by Earth's n'th most wealthy human being, cloned an open-source project, Lucene, made it easier to operate, and then sold access to it.
- inapis 7y agoThis is disingenuous. Yes elastic cloned an open source project and improved it in some measure but also made the access free for a decent chunk of the features. Most of what is under the paid license in the elastic stack has less to do with lucene itself and more to do with quality of life improvements in deployment, security, analysis etc. There are enough improvements over and above the lucene project to make elastic worthwhile in itself. OTOH, AWS pretty much xeroxed the elastic stack and added a paywall (at least after a year). Compared to that you still get immense value out of the elastic stack for free.
- cthalupa 7y agoHow has AWS added a paywall? They charged you for hosting ElasticSearch on their infrastructure and their management, yet there was no difference in the software. When they decided to implement features that were only available in the proprietary version of ElasticSearch, they open sourced it. Charging for infrastructure and management of said infrastructure is not the same as placing a paywall on software.
- antt 7y agoValid for n as n -> oo. You can't pretend that a monopoly plays by the same rules as everyone else. For capitalism to work no one can be allowed to control a market influencing chunk of it.
- sumedh 7y agoDo you think that someone with 1 million dollars has the same power and influence as someone with 1 billion dollars?