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Re:Death of an open-source business model by stingraycharles on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @01:12PM (#25361644)
Almost by definition the projects that are immune to this are the projects that are not yet popular enough. It’s not a coincidence that it’s Kubernetes and Envoy that are the most popular CNCF projects.
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Re:Death of an open-source business model by jabl on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:14PM (#25363011)
I think CNCF, or more generally, Linux Foundation projects are better characterized as public goods. Basically a bunch of companies, many whom are competitors with each other, get together to improve the commodified base upon which they depend. Saves a lot of $$$ that would otherwise be wasted in wheel reinvention or spent on license fees.

For the particular case of AWS now offering Kubernetes, is that:

- A win for AWS, since they can leech code without contributing back

or

- A win for Kubernetes contributors and users vs AWS, since now customers have the option of moving their Kubernetes workloads from AWS to other providers.

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