Yes obviously big tech knows how to profit from open source
they (AWS) profitted so hard from redis and elasticsearch that they had to literally change their licenses similar to O'sassy's
and even then people forked redis to create valkey and AWS engineers started working on it
Both redis and elasticsearch got so much backlash because "not open source" when in reality, they were trying to make ends meet but also since it allowed external contributions, people who contributed felt rug pulled
In the end, both of these had to revert switching to AGPL licenses.
Technically I am sure that people are still competing against these servers even with AGPL because it does have freedom 0 but I think that they kind of realized that backlash was very high
My opinion on the matter personally is, I value source code because I can work around it, I can see the code and audit it/ have a peace of mind.
But even now, open source is severely underfunded and I think we should do something about it. We cant really expect developers to write code in any license that you want, its their code and their wish (originally) and I think these are just means where someone wants to open source but he also wants to profit from his creation just enough so that he/she can maybe work full time on it/have more employees working on it and just have it grow better which for the end users does feel better.
they (AWS) profitted so hard from redis and elasticsearch that they had to literally change their licenses similar to O'sassy's
and even then people forked redis to create valkey and AWS engineers started working on it
Both redis and elasticsearch got so much backlash because "not open source" when in reality, they were trying to make ends meet but also since it allowed external contributions, people who contributed felt rug pulled
In the end, both of these had to revert switching to AGPL licenses.
Technically I am sure that people are still competing against these servers even with AGPL because it does have freedom 0 but I think that they kind of realized that backlash was very high
My opinion on the matter personally is, I value source code because I can work around it, I can see the code and audit it/ have a peace of mind.
But even now, open source is severely underfunded and I think we should do something about it. We cant really expect developers to write code in any license that you want, its their code and their wish (originally) and I think these are just means where someone wants to open source but he also wants to profit from his creation just enough so that he/she can maybe work full time on it/have more employees working on it and just have it grow better which for the end users does feel better.