Comments on: Why Does Amazon.com Hate Open Source?

By: Advantage Academy

Advantage Academy — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:07:39 +0000

Amazon do it for one single thing on their mind: SALES. Or should i say MONOPOLY too.

By: COD

COD — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:13:18 +0000

David – I had 10 interviews for a sales job with the Cloud Services group last year. They aren’t any more organized on the sales side.

Cencio – The basic economics of the open source world say you give back to the community. Since they seem to have gone all browser based now and dumped the client software, how much harder could it really be to support Linux? Macs are basically a pretty face on BSD.

By: Cencio

Cencio — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:15:52 +0000

It’s basic market economics. Most buyers are on Windows or Mac. They don’t lose much money by not actively supporting Linux, and it costs them money to develop for another platform.

By: David T Macknet

David T Macknet — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:40:12 +0000

You think Amazon is a coherent organization, with software standards? Please, don’t! I interviewed with them a few months ago and the interviewer said, “well, whatever technology you want to use, really.”

They have no coherent position on software, they have no single software-stack, they have no clue. They’re not about software: they’re about sales. Which means that they’re incoherent about what they’re doing, they have very little investment in software, they don’t care that they build the best – they just see a job and want it to be done-ish.

Want to use Perl, Java, Ruby, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle? They’ll give it to you.

They have no CIO worth a damn, and they are schizophrenic in their software development.

By: COD

COD — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:39:46 +0000

Google sells music. And there is always The Pirate Bay…

By: Fred the Skeptic

Fred the Skeptic — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:37:21 +0000

Would sounds good except: how are you going to get music? You’ll have to break.