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The Elastic/AWS licensing conflict and resulting fork have turned Elasticsearch and Kibana into business risks for companies that rely on them.

Vicky Brasseur, drawing on 30 years in open source business strategy, wrote that the Elastic/AWS licensing conflict and resulting fork make Elasticsearch and Kibana risky choices for businesses to depend on. ✦ AI generated

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VM (Vicky) Brasseur has been in free and open source software for 30 years and has been working with startups and enterprises doing open source & free software business strategy for quite a while now. We used Vicky's post titled “Elasticsearch and Kibana are now business risks” as a reference on this situation.

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VM (Vicky) Brasseur

VM (Vicky) Brasseur has been in free and open source software for 30 years and has been working with startups and enterprises doing open source & free software business strategy for quite a while now. We used Vicky’s post titled “Elasticsearch and Kibana are now business risks” as a reference on this situation. We even quoted her post a few times in our conversation on this episode with with Heather Meeker.

Elasticsearch and Kibana are now business risks

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