> This mechanism is much the same way Mozilla controls the Firefox trademarks.
That's not the same situation. Firefox is a standalone product; by nature it can't be reasonably sold as a service. And plenty of for-profit Firefox alternatives _do_ exist with different names.
Take MySQL. AWS sells MySQL through Aurora. It's almost certainly the case that they're using MySQL code under the hood along with a bit of secret sauce. I'd have a hard time believing Amazon has made many meaningful contributions back to the MySQL codebase. Even if they removed "MySQL" from the product naming, (is it even, for Serverless Aurora?) they're still making money hand-over-fist selling the functionality of code they didn't write.
That's not the same situation. Firefox is a standalone product; by nature it can't be reasonably sold as a service. And plenty of for-profit Firefox alternatives _do_ exist with different names.
Take MySQL. AWS sells MySQL through Aurora. It's almost certainly the case that they're using MySQL code under the hood along with a bit of secret sauce. I'd have a hard time believing Amazon has made many meaningful contributions back to the MySQL codebase. Even if they removed "MySQL" from the product naming, (is it even, for Serverless Aurora?) they're still making money hand-over-fist selling the functionality of code they didn't write.