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I agree with this fully. There is a small sweet-spot of people who are doing hobby projects or have SMB tech companies to where a project being open source matt
by motoxpro 2y ago
I agree with this fully. There is a small sweet-spot of people who are doing hobby projects or have SMB tech companies to where a project being open source matters. Note: this is much different from infra being open (React, Linux, etc).
People talk about lock in but it's way cheaper to migrate to a different solution than to maintain an entire product of it becomes unmaintained (i.e. an "open source Stripe" where you have to keep up with compliance)
I understand that the visibility causes better security but there is no guarantee that the hosted version is using that code.
Many billion-dollar companies barely have in-house web developers, let alone someone who can set up a K8s instance or a Hetzner server. "Little tech" is just such small portion of the economy.