Some don't like to press too hard on the reality of running an open source business, but it's hard and made 100X more so by some (mostly cloud vendors). You can shoot the messenger (in this case, @HashiCorp
), but they're simply trying to preserve their ability to keep building
@mjasay
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Open Source Business Challenges: Cloud Vendors Impact
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Monetizing AI: The Hard Reality for Builders
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I don't love the BSL (I know, I know…) but agree 100,000% with the "haven't tried to make $$" comment. I've spent my entire career trying to do it and it's HARD.
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Cloud Companies Improving Open Source Support and Licensing
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Years later, some sw companies have gotten better at operating it and AWS (among other clouds) has gotten better at contributing to the sw. But there's still a gap and that prompts things like the BSL.
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Cloud Giants’ Advantage in Monetizing Open Source Software
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Years ago @timbray called out the divide between the cloud vendors (awesome at operating sw at scale) and others better at building sw. https://
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HashiCorp’s Shift: Open Source Commitment Under Scrutiny
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Et tu, Hashi? It's always been overly façile to blame "VC-backed biz", and claim companies just didn't get open source/lacked commitment. But Hashi was (and is!) one of the "good guys." So this isn't done out of some "We're not rich enough" motive. Time to confront reality https://
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Utah Telehealth AI App Launches for Primary Care Access
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Great to hear. I got an email that it's now available in Utah and will try it. I'm fortunate to have some doctor friends that serve as surrogates of urgent care/PCPs but this sounds like a better way to preserve them as friends not medical care.
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Zoom’s Data Usage Policies Raise Privacy and AI Ethics Concerns
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That's cool of Bard, and scary from Zoom. "We can use your meetings for…pretty much anything we want to"
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Zoom’s New Terms of Service Raise Data Privacy Concerns
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Zoom seems to be dramatically overreaching in how it treats customer data with its new terms of service:
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Timezone Management Database Architecture Long-term Technical Debt
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Mr. @QuinnyPig is right: using your local time zone for a database or server seems fine until it's not ("It's a one-way door that you don't realize you're passing through and then you spend decades unpacking the mess").
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GenAI Shifts Developer Focus But Preserves Their Importance
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Think generative AI will render developers obsolete? Quite the opposite. GenAI promises to shift the focus for developers, but not their importance https://
infoworld.com/article/370423
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… by @mjasay for @infoworld