AWS exec: Our understanding of open source is changing
AWS exec: Our understanding of open source is changing
Apache Foundation president David Nalley on Amazon Linux 2023, Free software, and more
Doesn't happen very often, but I agree with AWS. Open source has very much become a vendor-sponsored affair and there are fewer and fewer actual community-driven projects.
Always had been. Apache et all successful projects almost always have corporate support.
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David Nalley is director of open source strategy and marketing at AWS and president of the Apache Software Foundation.
How is the relationship between AWS and the open source community evolving, bearing in mind things like the issues with Elastic, which resulted in the development of OpenSearch?
In days gone by, most open source projects were true community initiatives, whether it was the Apache web server or the Linux kernel, it was people who were coming together for a common cause.
“Our understanding of open source has started to change, and realising that, we have to measure and assess risk every time we take a dependency.
Another AWS open source project that has been taken up by others in what Nalley calls “strange and delightful ways” is Bottlerocket, a lightweight Linux distribution for containers.
“Our builder experience team maintains an internal package repository,” said Nalley, looking at things like the source of the software and the license.
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