I've always felt guilty by taking for granted the rare breed of virtuous humans that provide free excellent software without relying on advertising. Let's change that and pay, how much would I “lose” anyway?

I’ve always felt guilty by taking for granted the rare breed of virtuous humans that provide free excellent software without relying on advertising. Let’s change that and pay, how much would I “lose” anyway?

  • pup_atlas@pawb.social
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    10 months ago

    If that were solely true, there would be a lot more competition in the field right now. Amazon, (and to a much lesser extent the other 2 big names, GCP and Azure) are so massive not because they have a lot of power (plenty of other companies like digital ocean or OVM have plenty of scaling power too)— but because the integrations between their products are so seamless. Most of that functionality has a foundation in FOSS software that they’ve built on top of.

    • tired_of_sinophobia@lemmygrad.ml
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      10 months ago

      the integrations between their products are so seamless

      You’re joking, right?

      The actual reasons why orgs choose cloud is usually 1. Decision maker got sweet talked (interpret that however you want) by a cloud sales rep 2. Shift capex to opex and/or 3. Shift liability risk. (Bonus pt: decisionmaker needed cloud in his resume before jumping ship and moving on to their next bigger gig)

      If you think third party services are being chosen for tech reasons alone you clearly don’t have experience in the sector.

      I hate people exploiting the open source community but this is not the battle we need to be fighting when it comes to cloud. (Privacy and security would be a better angle.)

      Source: IT worker for almost 2 decades now