There's nothing wrong with releasing software under a license that allows contributions but disallows commercial use, which is what Cyph was attempting to do:

> We're a small startup with a significant amount of time and money invested into the development of Cyph. We recognize the need for anyone to be able to review the code and verify our production build against it from a security perspective, but at the same time it would be problematic if an unrelated third party could just stand up their own instance of Cyph and directly compete with us at this stage. We would be much more inclined to fully open source Cyph at a later stage of the business.

I disagree with the philosophy of forbidding any contributions just because they are not fully open-source for commercial purposes.

This seems like a very common scenario for software that is almost "open source" except for not allowing commercial deployments. I would be surprised if there is no existing licence to cover this use case, but it will not be fully open source of course. Which again doesn't mean that all contributions need to be forbidden.

I find AWS ECS with fargate to be a nice middle ground. You still have to deal with IAM, networking, etc. but once you get that sorted it’s quite easy to auto-scale a container and make it highly available.

I’ve used kubernetes as well in the past and it certainly can do the job, but ECS is my go-to currently for a new project. Kubernetes may be better for more complex scenarios, but for a new project or startup I think having a need for kubernetes vs. something simpler like ECS would tend to indicate questionable architecture choices.

Here’s the initial AWS response to the license change that they made in 2018, which I helped write. At the time we didn’t think a new license made sense, as AGPL is sufficient to block AWS from using the code, but the core of the issue was that AWS wanted to contribute security features to the open source project and Elastic wanted to keep security as an enterprise feature, so rejected all the approaches AWS made at the time. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/keeping-open-source-...

If they want to operate in Brazil, they do need a legal representation, it's literally the law.

X-Twitter doesn't refuse to censor opponents though, eg:

Twitter blocked 122 accounts in India at the government’s request https://restofworld.org/2023/twitter-blocked-access-punjab-a...

Elon Musk caved to government pressure to censor tweets ahead of the Turkish election. https://www.businessinsider.com/free-speech-censorship-elon-...