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what's the point of this? open source is not a business model, or it's not relevant, or you shouldn't expect it to be a career... or something? does it matte
by zzzeek 7y ago
what's the point of this? open source is not a business model, or it's not relevant, or you shouldn't expect it to be a career... or something? does it matter perhaps that AWS and most every other cloud company is running most of what they have on Linux which is...um, open source? I was not able to follow what point this article was trying to make. something about if you're not a nice person you can't do ops....OK ? being a nice person is generally helpful in a lot of ways, right?
- sg47 7y agoHe's saying that the schmucks who created the open-source software are not smart enough to operate it or make a business out of it. Only AWS with all its operational expertise is capable of operating it. The open source developers shouldn't even try to make a business out of it. Rather than going to Confluent and saying "I don't want to worry about Kafka again", they want the customer to come to AWS which is fine except that AWS did zilch to contribute to Kafka. If the creators of the open source software want to make a business out of it, who's Amazon to come and say that they don't have operational expertise?
- Rapzid 7y agoAlso they contribute to open source too. 'Cause ops wheel. Game changer, 2020. Don't laugh. Seriously though it's hard to not read between the lines on this. There seems to be more between the lines than lines somehow. I need a shower to rinse the bias off me now.