Two Ways of Interpreting the Elastic License Change
The Elastic license change suggests that open source will never really work in the cloud--or that it's finally fighting back against public cloud providers.
Will open source software and public clouds ever learn to get along? There is more than one way to answer that question. Your viewpoint likely depends on how you choose to think about Elastic’s
recent decision to change the licensing terms for Elasticsearch and Kibana, two widely used open source (or just “open,” according to Elastic’s new terminology) platforms. Viewed from one perspective, the Elastic license change suggests that open source will never really work in the cloud. From another, it looks like open source is finally fighting back in a real way against public cloud providers.