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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @04:41PM (#19435590)
The problem of leaky abstractions can't be solved by slapping yet another abstraction on top. The best case is that you become locked into your cloud provider abstraction layer instead of the cloud providers themselves - and then what stops them from becoming just as monopolistic?
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Re:Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed ... by chii on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:51PM (#19437431)
> locked into your cloud provider abstraction layer instead of the cloud providers themselves

but the assumption is that this layer is free (due to OSS), and the "owners" of this layer cannot pull the carpet under you by raising prices.

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