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Red Hat pulls Free Software Foundation funding over Richard Stallman's return (archive.is)
posted 4 years ago by altmehere 4 years ago by altmehere +60 / -0
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– M1919A2 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

I gave a presentation about a decade ago at a tech conference about the cloud. My take was it was a lot like Timeshare was back in the 70's. Basically paying for time on someone else's mainframe, only today its multiple machines taking up a room instead of one big one.

My prediction was that it would catch on big throughout the 2010's and that I thought something would happen that would cause companies to rethink that position. I was thinking more along the lines of a data breach. Then I planned on making a bunch more money in the 2020's consulting as companies decided to move stuff back in house. Now they'll be using similar virtualization technology that the "cloud" hosting providers have developed.

After the whole Parlor de-platforming happened my LinkedIn profile suddenly got a spike in traffic and my phone started ringing. People saw what happened there and realized that they had become too reliant on other people's platforms and that could cost them. Especially given how Parlor's data was leaked/breached...either way that part of the whole ordeal has given some CIO's pause and thinking that it's time to reconsider how much they rely on other companies.

Now I have a feeling that when those companies do bring that stuff back in house they'll be opening datacenters in low cost countries and not the US, but...

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