Why does AWS keep talking about “builders” instead of developers?
“Builders” aren’t necessarily developers, explains Ariel Kelman, VP of worldwide marketing for AWS — they’re anyone within an organization with a certain mindset.
Besides providing Open Distro Source code repo, the program is available as RPM packages and Docker containers, with separate downloads for the SQL JDBC and the PerfTop CLI. You can run this code on your laptop, datacenter, or, of course, the cloud.
Banon is unimpressed. “Our commercial code has been an ‘inspiration’ for others, it has been bluntly copied by various companies, and even found its way back to certain distributions or forks, like the freshly minted Amazon one, sadly, painfully, with critical bugs.
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Further, Banon continued, “Our brand has been used and abused, hijacked, and misrepresented many times. Companies have falsely claimed that they work in collaboration with our company, topically Amazon. We did not let it distract us, we kept on building great products and communities, that users love. Dilution of focus is the enemy of a company, and we never let it affect us. It is you that matter, our users, not the noise around it.”
Matt Asay, head of Adobe developer ecosystem, thinks we’ve been too hard on AWS:
It has become so easy to point fingers at AWS over its open source contributions (or lack thereof). First we slammed them for not contributing enough. Now we’re slamming them for potentially contributing too much. Lost in all this is the user, who just wants great software. Will AWS contributions to Elasticsearch significantly improve the code available for and around that project? It seems so, yes. Will that same code undermine Elastic NV’s ability to monopolize revenues around the project? The answer to this, too, seems to be “yes.” But if our focus is on the long-term viability of Elasticsearch, and not necessarily the long-term viability of any particular vendor thereof, is this a bad thing? I would argue that we’re fixated on the wrong thing (vendors and their business models) and not nearly enough on the more important matter of open source sustainability. The more contributors to a project, in general, the better. We should welcome AWS’ increased commitments to open source, not disparage them.
Is AWS being more of a friend or an enemy to open source? We’ll see. This is certainly a new twist to its long and complicated relationship with the open-source community.
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