> The time-tested model for a situation like this that benefits everyone is big company offering X as a service hires/funds N developers in proportion to the popularity of that service on their platform
That model would have worked nicely if Elastic.co had created a Foundation (like Google with k8s) and/or donated their core to a Foundation (like Hortonworks and Cloudera with many projects). They couldn't let go off their iron grip on it, even though they commoditized the core themselves by F/OSSing it.
That model would have worked nicely if Elastic.co had created a Foundation (like Google with k8s) and/or donated their core to a Foundation (like Hortonworks and Cloudera with many projects). They couldn't let go off their iron grip on it, even though they commoditized the core themselves by F/OSSing it.