On: How open is too open?

[kolpa]

Hortonworks was invented at Yahoo, and open sourcing it got an 8-20% decrease in development costs (in the form of external contributions).

AWS provides high quality hosting.

Hadoop provides a vendor-agnostic environment for writing analytics software.

AGPLv3 doesn't just mean that Amazon can't use your software. It means that no one who uses AWS can use software.

[Avshalom → kolpa]

Amazon absolutely can, it just won't