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GNOME Has a New Infrastructure Partner: Welcome AWS!
(discourse.gnome.org)
The GNOME Project is a free and open source desktop and computing platform for open platforms like Linux that strives to be an easy and elegant way to use your computer. GNOME software is developed openly and ethically by both individual contributors and corporate partners, and is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
Amazon is giving this service to Gnome for free. If anything, this is hurting them.
Let's take a moment and back up. And you're scenario, you say you wouldn't drive a Tesla if it was free, but would your tune change if you needed a car to get to him from work if you had a car that was broken down and needed to make sure you got to work and get necessities for yourself and for your family.
that makes it extra sus tho
The benefit for Amazon is good PR and supporting open source projects their engineers use.