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This is great perspective about how assumptions play out over longer period of time. I think that this risk is much greater for free third party services for cr
by jimmyl02 1y ago
This is great perspective about how assumptions play out over longer period of time. I think that this risk is much greater for free third party services for critical infrastructure.
Someone has to foot the bill somewhere and if there isn't a source of income then the project is bound to be unsupported eventually.
- tekacs 1y agoI think I would struggle to say that free services die at a higher rate consistently… So many paid offerings, whether from startups or even from large companies, have been sunset over time, often with frustratingly short migration periods. If anything, I feel like I can think of more paid services that have given their users short migration periods than free ones.
- lqstuart 1y agoCounterexample: the Linux kernel
- charcircuit 1y agoHow? Big tech foots the bill.
- shlomo_z 1y agoBut goo.gl is also big tech...
- 0x1ceb00da 1y agoGoogle wasn't making money off of goo.gl
- johannes1234321 1y agoBut what did it cost them? Especially in read only mode Sure, an service more to monitor, while for the most part "fix by restart" is a good enough approach. And then once in a while have an intern switching to latest backend choice.
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- iainmerrick 1y agoLinux isn't a service (in the SaaS sense).
- cortesoft 1y agoNah, businesses go under all the time, whether their services are paid or not.