Linux/FOSS complacency and a future cloud monopoly ?
An interesting talk on Linux/FOSS complacency and a future cloud monopoly at https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/cloud_is_another_sun/ regards Rohan McLeod
Quoting Rohan McLeod (rhn@jeack.com.au):
An interesting talk on Linux/FOSS complacency and a future cloud monopoly at https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/cloud_is_another_sun/
Kyle Rankin also delivered the same talk at the recent 17th annual Southern California Area Linux Exposition ('SCALE 17x'), in Pasadena, California. -- Cheers, You must rise or sink / You must conquer or win, Rick Moen Or serve and lose. / Suffer or triumph, / Be anvil or hammer. rick@linuxmafia.com McQ! (4x80) -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gesellige Lieder, Ein Anderes
Rick Moen via luv-talk wrote:
Quoting Rohan McLeod (rhn@jeack.com.au):
An interesting talk on Linux/FOSS complacency and a future cloud monopoly at https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/cloud_is_another_sun/ Kyle Rankin also delivered the same talk at the recent 17th annual Southern California Area Linux Exposition ('SCALE 17x'), in Pasadena, California.
Rick; on reflection, I wonder whether Kyle misses one of the strengths of the Linux/Foss, developer community in an environment like the USA; in that it provides a disinterested software standards alternative, to the proprietary lock-in, which seems an inevitable result of the dominant, 'small government minimal free-market regulation' ideology ? regards Rohan McLeod
Quoting Rohan McLeod (rhn@jeack.com.au):
Rick; on reflection, I wonder whether Kyle misses one of the strengths of the Linux/Foss, developer community in an environment like the USA; in that it provides a disinterested software standards alternative, to the proprietary lock-in, which seems an inevitable result of the dominant, 'small government minimal free-market regulation' ideology ?
While I certainly would smile on the notion of open source overcoming the effect of governments failing to regulate markets and thus fostering cloud-computing monopolies, I'm not entirely clear on how that work except in obvious ways like the likes of Gitea[1], Gogs[2], and Gitolite[3] providing self-hosted alternatives to cloud monopoles, just as Radicale[4] provides an excellent, well-performing, modestly scoped self-hosted altnerative to Google Calendar. On the specific question of what Kyle Rankin may have missed, I regret to say that I haven't yet seen his presentation, but look forward soon to catching the video-recorded copy. [1] https://gitea.io/ [2] https://gogs.io/ [3] http://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html (Some would have also included GitLab, but IMO that open-core project, being yet another hideously overengineered Ruby on Rails and Javascript monstrosity, is best avoided if possible.) [4] https://radicale.org/ -- Cheers, "A recursive .sig Rick Moen Can impart wisdom and truth. rick@linuxmafia.com Call proc signature()" McQ! (4x80) -- WalkingTheWalk on Slashdot
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