You’re legally allowed to call me an asshole to my face, but in a world where we expect civility...

...well, there is no but. The price I pay to live in a free world is that I can’t do anything about anyone else’s bad behaviour. I just have to put up with it because the alternatives are worse. At least I get a free world out of it.

I hope Elastic get something out of the free world in which they exist. Patches from early contributors, I’m guessing. Certainly a brand and adoption they wouldn’t have enjoyed had they remained closed source.

It’s a better world than one where we lack high quality open and free software, even if we have to live alongside the Amazons.