[DC LoCo] "Does Amazon 'owe' open source?"

[Robert Simmons]

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Phil Shapiro <pshapiro at his.com> wrote:
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>  Fascinating commentary at
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> http://t.co/CgM2PGT
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>    I agree that companies that benefit from open source ought to be
> contributing back to open source -- in at least some fashion or other.

Amazon has a strict policy of never contributing to open source
projects.  As to why they have this policy, I don't know.  I think
even for reporting bugs and bug fixes an employee is required to use
their personal email and have no mention of Amazon.  Therefore, there
are probably numerous bug reports in xen and linux that essentially
originate at Amazon, but are not acknowledged as such.

Rob