OSS licensing.
replyFree Software was designed to avoid this, and has become stricter as the technology changed. Open Source was deliberately designed to thwart this. The entire intention of it was to allow businesses to resell work that was done for free. When you fork Free Software, your fork is also Free Software.
Free Software licenses don't restrict profit making, even the AGPL wouldn't stop Amazon from using the same strategy to beat those OSS companies in the market.
replyYes, but at the very least, Amazon would need to contribute their code back, so it's not a complete loss.
replyThat is incorrect, the FSF licenses would require Amazon contribute code forward to their users, not back to the project.
replyAlso, Amazon were already contributing code back when these companies changed their licenses, the companies don't care about code contributions, just money.
Those greedy software companies only care about money, unlike the gracious Amazon that's all about code contributions... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Amazon
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