Elasticsearch does not belong to Elastic

Elastic's decision to relicense Elasticsearch away from open source is condemned as a betrayal of its 1,573 contributors and the broader open source community. The author argues that Elastic exploited a CLA loophole to seize control of a collectively built project, dismisses Elastic's framing of the move as 'doubling down on open', and rejects the Amazon competition excuse given Elastic's half-billion dollar revenue. The post calls the move 'Oracle-level' and urges developers to never sign CLAs, reinforcing that open source is a social contract with moral obligations.