Earlier this week, Amazon Web Services announced Open Distro for Elasticsearch — its own version of Elasticsearch, an open source software project created by publicly-traded software company Elastic.

Despite the mudslinging over its licensing change from open source, company growth indicates that customers are likely less concerned with source code. Open source isn’t supposed to work like this.

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