BIG open-source love Microsoft and Google? You still won't catch AWS

Code alone won't win the day

Open source wasn't supposed to matter in the cloud. After the Free Software Foundation's failed attempt to rein in network-delivered software services, some wrung their hands and waited for the open source apocalypse. Instead of imploding, however, open source adoption has exploded, with ever more permissive licenses rising to largely eliminate the need to contribute anything back."