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Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

Posted Jan 28, 2021 9:26 UTC (Thu) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
In reply to: Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary by kirschner
Parent article: Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

OSI certainly describes "open source" as a development methodology. See their mission statement.

The FSF(E) is obviously entitled to decide what "Free Software" means (it's their movement!), but purporting to speak on behalf of the open source side of things is IMHO questionable.


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