> Note, I do not think that this means that we should all rush to building our own data centres, writing our own databases and running all our own services. Th

> Note, I do not think that this means that we should all rush to building our own data centres, writing our own databases and running all our own services. The author is conflating three very different things: * Running software on your own machines * Setting up a full-scale data center * Writing your own "infrastructural" software ... helping him make an argument in favor of "the simplification and optimisation of using Software as a Service". That's disingenuous. ---------------------------- > My problem is that this weaponisation is killing off trust. Certainly there is little trust left after such weaponization. Sometimes, though, there's enough of a reason to mistrust _before_ this happens. After all, it's the same people/organizations which would later engage in such weaponization. There are sometimes/often preliminary signs that something like that could one day happen.