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That article was nearly content-free. Brief review of history and then some talk about a supposed "third wave" of migration is not clearly characterized, nor ac
by einpoklum 7y ago
That article was nearly content-free. Brief review of history and then some talk about a supposed "third wave" of migration is not clearly characterized, nor actually foreseen in any detail ("certainly X would be a good place to start" - thank you captain obvious).
No discussion of anything signifcat:
* Are commercial corporations contribution back to FOSS software they use?
* * Additional functionality and bug fixes?
* * Grants/donations of money, hardware or even developer time?
... Amazon, Google, MS run mostly FOSS on their clouds, and pocket billions, but certainly don't give much back.
* Does "open source components" just mean FOSS inside but closed commercial outside, or do companies transition to making FOSS?
* What about hardware? Or at least, device drivers and firmware?
* What about all those SaaS and PaaS platforms even the article itself mentions? Their engineering setups, and software in particular, are mostly closed. Where's that promised "wave" for them?