I think very soon we will read “Fuck AI”.
See e.g. https://aphyr.com/tags/the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-gu...
(That whole series is also available as PDF; I recommend printing it, spiral-binding the printout kinda like a pirated college textbook, and surreptitiously leaving it in cafes and the like.)
Or if they had a ton of viable competition.
It's an encrustified open source offering where the original vendors aren't compensated. Where there's lock in, proprietary offering creep, and highway robbery billing.
I will not, because that is not what I asked.
>Is not most cloud tech *based* on open-source?
The proprietary pieces are 99% of the offering. It just wouldn't have ever worked without the open source bits.