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

[Ken Stailey]

--- On Sat, 5/28/11, Phil Shapiro <pshapiro at his.com> wrote:

> From: Phil Shapiro <pshapiro at his.com>
> Subject: [DC LoCo] "Does Amazon 'owe' open source?"
> To: ubuntu-us-dc at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Saturday, May 28, 2011, 11:10 AM
> 
>  Fascinating commentary at
> 
> http://t.co/CgM2PGT
> 
>     I agree that companies that benefit from open
> source ought to be contributing back to open
> source -- in at least some fashion or other.
> 
>              phil
> 

Has Amazon had a chance to defend themselves?  There might be non-obvious contributions out there.

--- On Sat, 5/28/11, Robert Simmons <rsimmons0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Amazon has a strict policy of never contributing to open
> source projects. 

How do you explain this:

http://www.masonhq.com/?AmazonDotCom