alt Hacker NewsI don't see this as an issue with the company. They were happy to release their code as OSS, as long as that allowed them to make enough money to develop the software. It was a win/win, and them AWS came and took advantage of that.
If you leave some apples at the side of the road, with a sign "$1 per apple" or whatever, and people largely pay enough for you to continue to pick apples, that's great. If someone starts coming every day and taking the entire crate, I don't blame you for discontinuing the convenient apple sales, I blame the thief.
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This analogy falls apart because there wasn’t a price for the software.
It’s like someone said “free whole apples, or $2/lb for sliced apples.”
And someone came, took all the whole apples, cut them, and sold them themselves.
In this allegory, did AWS take all the apples in the crate while paying them $1 for every apple, thus becoming the bad guy?