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> Why is one of the largest core open source repositories centralized and private? Why are we so dependent on AWS, Google and others for large chunks of Interne
by inickt 7y ago
> Why is one of the largest core open source repositories centralized and private? Why are we so dependent on AWS, Google and others for large chunks of Internet services to be accessible?
Just speculating but I think distributed systems are just inherently more complex. Serving multiple mirrors is easy, hosting across a set of providers and keeping things in sync gets harder.
It's a problem, and besides building completely open source systems that are designed to have distributed instances, I think its a pretty hard thing to fix.