Comment by riku_iki

Comment by riku_iki 11 hours 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 9 hours ago

May I remind you of https://killedbygoogle.com/ ?

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riku_iki 9 hours ago

that 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).

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- rixed 6 hours ago
  
  True 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.
  
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