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AWS exec: Our understanding of open source is changing (www.theregister.com)

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Doesn't happen very often, but I agree with AWS. Open source has very much become a vendor-sponsored affair and there are fewer and fewer actual community-driven projects.

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[–] albert180@feddit.de 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Inside AWS we have the concept of strategic open source projects. We require the business owner inside a service team to report on a quarterly basis about the health of those projects. We’re doing that so we know that they’re paying attention to it. We don’t want to learn that this thing that’s really important is maintained by a guy living in a basement on public assistance. That is not acting in the best interests of our customers.”

They could like pay the guy to maintain it, when they are making massive profits from it. But I know that would be too much to ask for from Amazon

[–] negativenull@startrek.website 22 points 2 years ago

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 7 points 2 years ago

I do see a scenario where the project becomes tainted because of it. Not really sure how to approach this as maintainers definitely need to get reimbursed in some way.

[–] LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Always had been. Apache et all successful projects almost always have corporate support.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world -1 points 2 years ago

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David Nalley is director of open source strategy and marketing at AWS and president of the Apache Software Foundation.

How is the relationship between AWS and the open source community evolving, bearing in mind things like the issues with Elastic, which resulted in the development of OpenSearch?

In days gone by, most open source projects were true community initiatives, whether it was the Apache web server or the Linux kernel, it was people who were coming together for a common cause.

“Our understanding of open source has started to change, and realising that, we have to measure and assess risk every time we take a dependency.

Another AWS open source project that has been taken up by others in what Nalley calls “strange and delightful ways” is Bottlerocket, a lightweight Linux distribution for containers.

“Our builder experience team maintains an internal package repository,” said Nalley, looking at things like the source of the software and the license.

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