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Comment by gdfasfklshg4 | Hacker News Reader

It isn't the install. It is the updates - and the potential for future backwards incompatible updates.

FLOSS software needs hosted, supported, reasonably priced versions with security updates to be competitive.

sorry, i think if a tech company can't maintain an install for something that is crucial , then it shouldnt be a tech company.perhaps it s a marketing shop or sth.

it's as if tech is delegating so much away that in the end there will be nobody left willing to actually do the tech

Maybe consider that we have literally hundreds of priority tasks, all of which are legitimately very important, and that while we can spend the time necessary to install and maintain non-turnkey solutions, we’d really prefer to work on one of the other priorities with that time.

This is just a general comment on the state of tech, not personal. It seems the priorities have shifted into other things away from tech.

There’s no such thing as general tech priorities, it’s just an amalgam of a bunch of individual priorities. In most of the cases I’ve seen those priorities are very reasonable. If you start a tech company and prioritize fiddling with internal messaging software over building your product, you’re going to fail. Prioritizing tech doesn’t mean yak shaving every random task, it means outsourcing as many non-essential tasks as you possibly can so that you have as much time and attention as possible for the one specific technical task that matters: building your product.

I don't think priorities shifted away from tech, they just moved up the value chain. Tech companies should focus their limited resources on building their core product, not managing "plumbing" like email servers or chat.

then again if amazon did that, they d never come up with AWS

I can definitely maintain an install of whatever is needed. Why would I use time doing something that doesn't create value over and above just using a paid for solution?

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