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They did it only after ES decided to abandon the Apache license. I doubt that Amazon would have done it if they were not forced. Redshift is also Postgres based and Amazon never released something. So based on that metric Alibaba is more open.


There would be no open source Elastic had Amazon not taken it on. It was a smart move and benefits their balance sheet to do so. The point though is that move was greater than replicating existing open source work.


? Team on my previous workplace patched ElasticSearch to add functionality for years. Could thay do it if there were no open source Elastic?


I agree you can't patch software without an actively supported open source package. You may have meant to reply to someone else.




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