Wake up, Linux hippies: No one 'morally obligated' to give back

"Open...and Shut For years, open-source advocates – including me – have demanded greater open-source contributions from the world's largest beneficiaries, from Google to Morgan Stanley and the US Department of Defense. Now Amazon is on the firing line for not giving back commensurate with the benefits it receives from various open-source communities, and the thinking behind the arguments are as wrong-headed as they ever were.

"Open source, it turns out, is doing just fine, with or without Amazon. And always will."

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