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Even for VC backed startups, I think it was never a problem until cloud providers started competing with them. It is not a level playing field if your competito
by gobins 3y ago
Even for VC backed startups, I think it was never a problem until cloud providers started competing with them. It is not a level playing field if your competitors are big players like Amazon who can take away a lot of your possible customers.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Even for VC backed startups, I think it was never a problem until cloud providers started competing with them. Cloud providers (and SaaS providers before the dynamic provisioning for which “cloud” was coined existed) have been offering commercial hosted OSS solutions since before there were VC-backed “our whole business model is developing OSS and selling hosted access to it” startups. The thing that changes was the startups trying to trade on OSS' cultural impact with a business model that made no sense, not the practices of cloud providers.