I think it’s interesting to speculate what would happen if there was a significant cost to running OSS as a cloud provider. I suspect what would happen is that

I think it’s interesting to speculate what would happen if there was a significant cost to running OSS as a cloud provider. I suspect what would happen is that they would look at the cost and wonder if it’s not worth building an alternate solution in house. They would be able to build it to work and scale as it works best for their technical setup. Lock in would be much worse even if it’s not ideal even with OSS and OSS would be less used in general. I think if you look at e.g Redis vs the Dynamo/Cassandra split the OSS ecosystem is much better off in the former.