Comment by smgpie
3 days ago
Yes I do think cloud providers should open source all of their platforms, and this is not charity because it is essentially the hosting that they are providing as a product. Even if, say, google open sources its whole search infrastructure, it does not at all means you can just host your own due to the huge hardware requirements, but you can know(especially after AI which can be utilized to do this) that they are not using your data in a way they shouldnt.
> because it is essentially the hosting that they are providing as a product
That would be true _if_ they were forced to open source all their code, but it isn’t today.
> Even if, say, google open sources its whole search infrastructure, it does not at all means you can just host your own due to the huge hardware requirements
You can’t but Acme Inc and other bigcorps could, and Google’s margins would evaporate overnight.