I can't tell if this is sarcasm or real.

But one thing is for certain, AWS is using open source software, for profit, under the Apache license, exactly as the license was intended

When Amazon said things like how they "partnered" with Elastic, IMO they crossed a line

I suspect the era just before the cloud was the peak of open source software

these days you'd have to be a fool to start a company offering an open source server based product under a liberal license

Amazon is a parasite, plain and simple

Large companies have monetized open source for decades, ever since open source has existed. Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon..the list is endless. I can't imagine why people will quit the open source movement now because they realize they can't make money from it – that has always been true. Writing FOSS to get rich has always been an oxymoron.

It's not about "getting rich"; it's about being able to make a living. Those are not the same things.

The whole point of "The Cloud" is to profit from F/OSS. And Elastic, Redis, Mongo, and also RedHat have indeed already adapted their licenses or offerings accordingly.

This is satire right? Do you say the same thing about Linux? nginx? WordPress?