I meant they have the resources to copy any product in a way that will crush the competition.

As in, they can build an alternative to an open source project, offer it for free (i.e. at a loss) for years until they capture the market, and then start enshittifying. This is an antitrust problem.

> Elastic explicitly allowed AWS to copy and use their source code, then whined about it.

Yeah at the very least they should have started with a copyleft licence.

Ah I see what you mean. Yes, agree. But that's orthogonal to OSS and like you say is a reg issue.

Its really hard to make an argument that someone is selling under market to try to corner it when the alternative is free as well.

Well if there is a company paying salaries from it, it's not exactly free.