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> commonly are subject to rug pulls This open source purism is toxic. Projects have to be sustainable. Hyperscalers have hoovered up the entire Internet and o
by echelon 1y ago
> commonly are subject to rug pulls
This open source purism is toxic. Projects have to be sustainable.
Hyperscalers have hoovered up the entire Internet and own the entire mobile device category. We're over here bickering about small developers writing source available / OSS-with-CLA.
If the community cares so damned much, they can take the last open version and maintain it themselves.
Please take all of this negative energy and fight for a breakup of big tech instead.
- dapperdrake 1y agoAnd this has always depended on hardware and never really software.
- DaSHacka 1y ago"The issue you care about is toxic. You should care about the issue I care about instead!"
- cycomanic 1y agoThat's misinterpreting what the previous poster is saying. They are saying that hyperscalers owning significant portions of the Internet (and using lots of projects without giving back) is a bigger threat to the sustainability of OSS. Now I would argue that the sustainability of OSS is more important at least in the context of an lwn article. That doesn't mean one can not argue that rug pulls are the bigger threat, but that's not what you accused the previous poster off.
- socalgal2 1y agowhich hyperscalers are we talking about specifically? Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, all gives tons of open source support. I think Amazon does too but less familar. So who are these hyperscalers you're claiming don't give back?