Reminds me of something my dad once told me: work doesn't have to be fun/rewarding. That's why the call it "work." It's amazing if you can get paid for something you love, but not everyone has that luxury. Bills must be paid….
@mjasay
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AWS Data Advantage in Generative AI Shift
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On the most recent Amazon earnings call (
https://
fool.com/earnings/call-
transcripts/2023/08/03/amazoncom-amzn-q2-2023-earnings-call-transcript/
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Open Source Sustainability: Industry Challenges and Collateral Damage
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I understand. It stinks. There's collateral damage and it sounds like you're part of that. It's not quite the same thing but it's all part of the larger open source sustainability question. As an industry we don't have great answers for it (at the corporate or individual level)
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OSS License Change: Strategic Cloud Implications Over Monetization
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What do you think would be the end result if they kept the OSS license? Play it out. They didn't make the change as a money grab (ppl like SOG would say there's more money in staying OSS). So easy to point fingers and much harder to look at *why* they did it. Hint: clouds
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AWS Internal Project Names Disclosure from Big Tech
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Absolutely. I can cite some internal project names from AWS if you'd like?
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Cloud Vendors Revenue Capture Problem in Open Source Projects
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You didn't read the post, did you? Hands up if you think it's Really Great™ for cloud vendors to siphon off all revenue from a project such that there's none left to actually develop the product? "But K8s!" is not a useful response, bc it's the exception, not the rule.
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Cloud vendors pragmatism developers customers
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How about "pragmatism"? Same thing. It's a way of encouraging cloud vendors to actually do what's best for developers and customers rather than what is most short-term convenient.
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HashiCorp’s License Strategy Reshapes Cloud Developer Partnerships
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HashiCorp’s software license turns realpolitik: how the move will be good for developers, by pushing the clouds to partner https://
infoworld.com/article/370480
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Mission Impossible AI Portrayal Wildly Implausible Entertainment
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Ditto in the new Mission Impossible movie. Rogue AI and so wildly implausible that it was only enjoyable once I recognized that *everything* about the movie is implausible, and gave in. 🙂 https://
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HashiCorp License Change Through Realpolitik Lens
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I just used the word "realpolitik" in a blog post and it felt so good to revisit my undergraduate and graduate studies in international relations. (Yes, of course it's about the Hashicorp license change. )