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Re:Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers by hueving on Monday December 03, 2018 @07:59AM (#18588389)
This is a lame excuse. Google has open sourced all kinds of Linux kernel work and they were doing custom hardware with huge proprietary internal systems way before AWS was a thing.

Open source takes work and the foresight to separate your custom shit from things genuinely helpful to the community. Amazon doesn't encourage or incentivize that kind of thinking.

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Re:Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers by talawahdotnet on Monday December 03, 2018 @09:07AM (#18588790)
> Open source takes work and the foresight to separate your custom shit from things genuinely helpful to the community.

That is exactly what AWS has done in releasing Firecracker[1]. Better late than never.

1. https://firecracker-microvm.github.io

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