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		bigstrat2003 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left There is no bad guy. The OSS license meant that AWS was perfectly free to do as they did. If the companies who licensed their software as OSS didn't want that, then they shouldn't have used an OSS license.

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stavros 12 days ago [–]

Ok, then fine, the companies who licensed their software as OSS did that for as long as they wanted to, and then they moved away. What's the issue here?

jen20 11 days ago | [–]

There isn't one? Either with the change or with the ensuing forks, in principle.

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