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stavros on Jan 19, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic lice...

I agree, but I think it's generally "tweaking the rules so they can stay alive" at this point, ie not about increasing an already big revenue stream.

SpicyLemonZest on Jan 19, 2021 [–]

That's certainly what it looks like Elastic is trying to imply, but their revenue was over $400 million last year.

toomuchtodo on Jan 19, 2021 | [–]

For comparison, AWS does about $40B/year in revenue.

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