Amazon Has Gone from Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor: Open Source Devs
Step 1: Launch company to monetize open source hoping to get rich in IPO.Step 2: Be shocked when Amazon uses your open licenses exactly how they're allowed toStep 3: Write angry letter about Amazon monetizing the project you were trying to monetize.Open source isn't meant to be a get-rich quick scheme for founders to generate cheap buzz off their 'free' project. It's literally designed to be forked and used in whatever way the user/developer sees fit. You can't just unrealistically hope that a large company won't exploit it in whatever way they can.