[alexland]

Doesn't seem reasonable to compare how you feel about open sourcing personal projects to open source software that a company builds and relies on for revenue. Open source is amazing because it allows all of us to share knowledge and build things better than any of us could build individually, and I LOVE that. When a goliath like AWS comes along as abuses OSS to make money off of someone else's work without contributing back (either with money or code) they're not operating in the spirit of open source and they're potentially making it more difficult to successfully run that company (which IS contributing software to our community). That's not cool.

[capkutay]

It’s not abuse...it’s using the license exactly as is allowed.

[xref]

CockroachDB sees it differently, and so changed the license to explicitly describe AWSs behavior as abuse.