What I find absurd is the perspective that it is 1. a giant no no breach of the spirit of open source software to provide software with open source code but a license that restricts commercial resale, and 2. it's totally great for megacorporations to reap the vast majority of the rewards that accrue to popular mature open source software services.
I honestly can't fathom this worldview or how so many people here seem to be so sure it is the one that makes sense.
If you win this battle for mindshare, people will just stop making open source services like these. Every service will just be fully closed source SaaS. Amazon can't just re-sell that no matter what, and people just crap on you if you make it open source (edit: re-reading this, should have said "source available" here), so why would anyone bother?
Increasingly people who make open source software services are damned if they do and damned if they don't, and if that is how it's gonna be, people are going to just stop bothering with it.
I honestly can't fathom this worldview or how so many people here seem to be so sure it is the one that makes sense.
If you win this battle for mindshare, people will just stop making open source services like these. Every service will just be fully closed source SaaS. Amazon can't just re-sell that no matter what, and people just crap on you if you make it open source (edit: re-reading this, should have said "source available" here), so why would anyone bother?
Increasingly people who make open source software services are damned if they do and damned if they don't, and if that is how it's gonna be, people are going to just stop bothering with it.