The software engineers who care enough to have an opinion probably likely don't contribute to the ELK stack, and those who are impacted by this license change are no better off. Ever since Elastic went on the warpath with their serverless cloud and Gen AI the entire "open source" pitch is moot, regardless of the license.
Regardless of the openness of their code - their observability product is grossly bloated and unimpressive, the security product is sideways, fleet is broken by design, the entire database sector is coming after their analytics use cases at much better perf + much lower costs (and winning), management look incompetent, RAG is a big bet - but unlikely to be the saving grace the stack + company needs. It's truly a product on fire. Elasticsearch was interesting 10 years ago - nowadays not so much. This just seems like a "hope for the best" distraction for scarier things to come for Elastic.
Regardless of the openness of their code - their observability product is grossly bloated and unimpressive, the security product is sideways, fleet is broken by design, the entire database sector is coming after their analytics use cases at much better perf + much lower costs (and winning), management look incompetent, RAG is a big bet - but unlikely to be the saving grace the stack + company needs. It's truly a product on fire. Elasticsearch was interesting 10 years ago - nowadays not so much. This just seems like a "hope for the best" distraction for scarier things to come for Elastic.