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okram | 5 years ago

Ha. The two comments that critique Amazon got down voted with negative points. Does Amazon have cronies patrolling Hacker News to squash dissidents?

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speedgoose|5 years ago

Me too I realized that criticism towards AWS brings downvotes on HN. A bit strange because it's usually the opposite online. Maybe a lot of HN readers are working for AWS.

wisnesky|5 years ago

You must be referring to the "love-hate" relationship between Amazon and open source software as described eg here?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-and-commercial-open-sou...

"Vendors developing those open source products started accusing AWS of strip mining, i.e., reaping the benefits of the products, without contributing back to their development."

pabs3|5 years ago

I hate to defend Amazon, but it seems that they do contribute back to open source:

https://aws.amazon.com/opensource/

For example running `git shortlog -ne` in the Linux kernel git repository will show a number of Amazon folks with many commits to their name.

BubRoss|5 years ago

You posted a borderline incoherent rant of nonsense, what did you expect?

1337shadow|5 years ago

If that was the case, would they have to be many, or just one with a script and a catchall mailbox ?

okram|5 years ago

They are probably using some free OSS script.