> but open source certainly helps balancing out the odds for different competitors. Assuming all competitors have the same engineers who are competent in the v

> but open source certainly helps balancing out the odds for different competitors. Assuming all competitors have the same engineers who are competent in the various technologies involved in debugging this (at a glance: filesystem operations, strace, wireshark, linux kernel compilation and modules, Google Cloud Platform...), know how to contact and approach the open-source maintainers. ... and most importantly: have the time to dedicate to such a debugging task.