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> Why is it okay to just accept that the hyperscalers are 100% closed, but the minute a smaller player tries to play "open-ish" with "fair source" we crucify th
by riku_iki 1y ago
> Why is it okay to just accept that the hyperscalers are 100% closed, but the minute a smaller player tries to play "open-ish" with "fair source" we crucify them?
besides morale, from pure business point of view, hyperscalers will likely last, so that's Ok to rely on them, small OSS projects can be supported/modified by community or business itself, but when some small closed source service is gone, it is compete shutdown, you need to migrate to something else in a very big hurry.
- rixed 1y agoMay I remind you of https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/ ?
- riku_iki 1y agothat list is catchy, but if you dig into details, there are many caveats, for example many product were not killed, but replaced with low friction, for example hangout, many products were created at period of time when there was that google labs which launched many strange low quality products which never gained traction. If you check some core business products (ads, cloud), google usually provides reasonable deprecation timeframe (years).
- rixed 1y agoTrue that google never depleted us from messaging apps; at some point they had 3 different in operation, with contradictory statements about which one was made obsolete by some other. Which also illustrate that a stable business does not imply a stable product.
- riku_iki 1y ago> Which also illustrate that a stable business does not imply a stable product. there is no absolutely stable product, some weird stuff can happen to everything, its question of probabilities, what the chance that some underfunded startup with negative cash flow will shut down some product, and what is the chance that google will shut down AdWords API?