Re:Amazon Managed Service for Grafana
by shostack on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:29PM
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Does that not risk Amazon becoming an "app store" for OSS and wielding quite a bit of influence over it?
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Re:Amazon Managed Service for Grafana
by zhengyi13 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @04:56PM
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I don't think Amazon would mind being in that position.
Realistically though, with 3 major cloud vendors to choose from, I don't think the danger of app-store style control holds in the same way.
The App Store is fundamentally a problem because there exists only one (eg apple) or one is inherently privileged (eg android); on a PC/servers/cloud, this isn’t likely to ever occur.
Although, I suppose steam is an argument to the alternative, though they haven’t successfully abused their position afaik (like their attempt to monetize general modding communities across non-valve games)