So are ya open source or aren t ya?
Tim Anderson Thu 21 Jan 2021 // 10:15 UTC Share
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Elastic CEO and co-founder Shay Banon has attacked AWS for what he claims is unacceptable use of the open-source Elasticsearch product and trademark.
Banon s post is part of the company s defence of its decision to drop the open-source Apache 2.0 licence for its ElasticSearch and Kibana products and instead use the copyleft SSPL or restrictive Elastic licence – though the plan is to add provisions to mitigate this by having code revert to the Apache 2.0 licence after a period of up to five years.
The new rant makes explicit that the purpose of the licence change is to make it harder for AWS to use Elastic s code. According to Banon, AWS has been doing things that we think are just NOT OK since 2015. Banon said that we ve tried every avenue available including going through the courts, presumably a reference to this lawsuit [PDF], the outcome of which is not ye
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Google Cloud has been on a hiring spree, nabbing executives focusing on winning large enterprise customers in specific industries like finance and telecom and helping the unit expand worldwide.
This year, it also lost several top execs who went to other firms, including former CFO Steffan Tomlinson.
Read below for Google Cloud s biggest hires and departures of the past year.
In July 2019, Google Cloud set the goal of tripling its salesforce over the next few years, but it has since gone on a hiring spree in other areas as well.