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The Cloud and Open Source Powder Keg

by scarhill on 3/16/19, 4:51 PM with 2 comments

• by mooreds on 3/16/19, 10:43 PM

  > One hundred years ago, leadership of dozens of countries decided to march into a conflict that it knew would be costly, horrifically damaging and from which there was unlikely to be a real winner. They did so because they didn’t see any other choice.

  Where will this end? On the one side, the cloud providers have all the money and can support the forks. On the other hand, if cloud providers continue to do this, there won't be any VC funded open source companies built in the future, which is like the cloud providers eating their seed corn (because the open source companies like Elasticsearch prove out a market, undercut proprietary systems, and basically do market research for the cloud providers).