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I believe he is mocking the average HN commenter, who simultaneously complains about these types of opaque-black-box systems but attacks transparent distributed

I believe he is mocking the average HN commenter, who simultaneously complains about these types of opaque-black-box systems but attacks transparent distributed systems.

zeruch 3y ago
That's how I interpreted it. Everyone seems to want the advantages of the FOSS model for general benefit, but want firms to have their advantages at the same time, and not acknowledge the inherent adversarial aspect of that.