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		everfrustrated on Aug 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elasticsearch is open source, again Also worth noting that AWS was already selling products using Elastic in the name before Elastic/Elasticsearch (2010) Eg AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (2006) AWS Elastic Block Storage (2008) I suspect if Elastic tried to take them to court they would have got the trademark thrown out.

dhd415 on Aug 29, 2024 [–]

As a previous comment noted, Elastic _did_ take them to court over the trademark and it was _not_ thrown out: https://www.elastic.co/blog/elastic-and-amazon-reach-agreeme...

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