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IMO it’s relative to when Amazon uses then forks Elasticsearch. It’s something that happens. The transfer of ideas cannot be stopped because you arrived there first.

The reaction to the situation from the CEO and the reaction to the reaction by the development community are both soaked in cultural faux pas generated out of a few decades of startup-pop-goes-the-weasel.

I’m sure both sides love the untrue misnomer phrase:

It’s not personal, it’s business.




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