Comment by devy

4 years ago

Brendan Burns, the Kubernetes co-founder who currently works at Microsoft Azure as a Corporate Vice President disagrees the "killing Kubernetes" part.[1][2]

But yes, Big Tech's promo committee's short-sighted interests do NOT align well with multi-vendor sponsored open source projects' the long term prosperity. And it's no secrets that open source contributors are overworked. And it's not only affect K8s, but it affects across the board.[3]

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendan-burns-487aa590

[2]: https://twitter.com/brendandburns/status/1511841189686771716

[3]: https://twitter.com/kantrn/status/1511791447091003395

2 comments

devy

klabb3 4 years ago

Well yes, what did you expect a corporate VP with skin in the game would say publicly on Twitter?

hyperpape 4 years ago

The OP then agrees that Microsoft stands out as supporting OSS more than competitors. https://twitter.com/kantrn/status/1511844921921077249