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Re:Free and open source software projects are in transition by a13o on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:51PM (#36945407)
The strip mining imagery landed for me when focusing on the trend of open source communities adjacent to cloud platforms. Citus, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, etc all feel like corporate goliaths forked and outcompeted David. No analogy is perfect, but I can see facets of why one might liken this to strip mining.
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Re:Free and open source software projects are in transition by rrdharan on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:01PM (#36950592)
How does David vs. Goliath apply to any of these projects?

Kubernetes was developed, paid for and released by Google and loosely inspired by Borg.

ElasticSearch meanwhile wouldn't exist without Lucene which was again paid for and released by Excite in 1999, and who were very much not a David at the time.

PostgreSQL came out of Berkeley.. is the idea that David is the PostgreSQL Global Development Group (which includes Microsoft, Google and Amazon employees)? Or maybe it's EDB (https://www.enterprisedb.com/)?

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