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Re:Storage is now available in Supabase (YC S20) by endisneigh on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @01:34PM (#26637622)
Is open source synonymous with self hosted?

I can think of some open source projects are prohibitively difficult to host yourself.

I can also think of closed source projects that are easy to self host.

In any case I feel that your fervor is unjustified.

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Re:Storage is now available in Supabase (YC S20) by superasn on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:08PM (#26638098)
Yes this is misplaced anger. I remember long time ago I tried compiling PhantomJs.exe (it's now defunct but it was a alternative to puppeteer). It was insanely hard to compile the latest release for Windows. I had to actually hire and pay someone to do it for me.

Yet I could not be more thankful to the creator of PhantomJs for the work he put into making it. The source code was all there but I wasn't able to do it. But the person I hired did eventually. I am only thankful to the people who make anything open-source and are kind enough to share the code with the world to see and learn.

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