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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday December 19 2019, @06:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the sincerest-form-of-flattery dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Stung by an article mulling Amazon Web Services' market dominance on Monday, AWS VP Andi Gutmans fired back, complaining the reporter ignored flattering comments from AWS partners – and that "AWS is 'strip-mining' open source is silly and off-base."

"The journalist largely ignores the many positive comments he got from partners because it’s not as salacious copy for him," Gutmans said in a blog post, as if critical reporting carried with it an obligation to publish a specific quota of marketing copy.

And he insisted that Amazon "contributes mightily to open source projects," and "AWS has not copied anybody’s software or services."

In its recent lawsuit against AWS, open source biz Elastic, cited in the New York Times article and a business which is public in its disaffection with Amazon, did not accuse AWS of copying its open source search software – which anyone can copy by virtue of its open source license. Rather, the search biz objects to AWS' use of its trademark in its Amazon Elasticsearch Service.

But others have been more cutting. Following AWS' launch of DocumentDB, a cloud database compatible with the MongoDB API, CEO Dev Ittycheria suggested his company's product had been imitated and copied.

Indeed, among startups like Confluent, Elastic, MongoDB, Neo4J, and Redis Labs that have been trying to turn open source projects into revenue-generating businesses, concern about AWS - and to a lesser extent Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud - is quite common.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 19 2019, @01:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 19 2019, @01:54PM (#934193)

    I think Elastic is suing for Trademark infringement, which seems like "proper American legal protections" to me.