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Another bold innovative move from AWS.

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To be honest, charging for things that other people have created and released for free _is_ pretty bold! ha

Is it bold? If a group of people put something together and release the details for free, they have to expect others will profit off of it. This is the fate of all useful open source software that doesn't have some kind of no-commercial clause (which potentially moves it outside the ideals of open source as it restricts the use of the source code).

icedchai|5 years ago

Not really. This has been going on for decades. Examples: early web hosts running the LAMP stack: Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP. Eventually people put an admin UI on top (control panels, like Plesk and cPanel.) The core functionality is all free software. The value is not having to configure and manage all that stuff yourself.

rajamaka|5 years ago

You are still free to use the free open source version.

twelve40|5 years ago

There is absolutely nothing wrong with charging for this. Have you heard of "Wordpress hosting" for example?

gotts|5 years ago

.. and not contributing back to the community and original authors