• arthurpizza@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Hot take: Good for them.

    This will have zero impact on 99% of independent developers. Most small companies can move to an alternative or roll their own infrastructure. This will only really impact large corporations. I’m all for corporation-on-corporation violence. Let them fight.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      This is a different take on the VMscare broadcom purchase.

      The real losers here are SoHos where it is too pricy to migrate and also too pricy not to. I don’t know whether that’s in your 1% or 99% but:

      • devs don’t develop for infrastructure their customers don’t use. It’s as dead as LKC, then.
      • big customers have deprecated their VMware infra and are only spending on replacement products, and if they do the same for docker the company will suffer in a year.

      If docker doesn’t have the gov/mil revenue, are we prepared for the company shedding projects and people as it shrinks?

      Remember: when tech elephants fight, it’s we the grass who suffers.