On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 12:12:13 -0500 Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: <snip>
The whole CentOS/Rocky/Alma/Oracle/SUSE/RHEL dustup has brought some instability to the realm (and for those of us old enough, bears remarkable resemblance of the old SysV/OSF1 wars). Ditto some of the jerk moves Canonical seems to be doing to leverage the Ubuntu base. But I think that these instabilities will settle down, even if they only evolve into stalemates.
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| Does anyone on the list actually know (as in personal experience) | whether/which (or even if) most tech unicorns are Linux based or with a | Linux origin story? That may be interesting history but I doubt that it is worth consideration for a new business.
Agreed. Linux is infrastructure, not a factor in whether an effort gets funded or expands.
Anything else is just unthinkable
More interesting is to figure out how to use the cloud without being tied to a particular vendor.
if you are just a user? no clue. but if you are a 'user' as in sys/dev not much to figure out, I alreay live this dream. I call mine DAPI, but it probably needs a better name than just db api (as it is much more than just that or yacapi yet another custom api :) ) i talk to sql from anything, anywhere and auth is multi layered (even down to data field level, where even data field views and changes are all new data in themselves, nowadays meta data has become deprecated as it is all just data) you can also live this dream? if you need to get inspiration, look at EPP - you can define any protocol to assign objects, but coding for this is like praying while biting nails - you need to make it very spiritual (I have multi bibles) and extremely habitual, imo, and of course as usual ianal (i have eons of prior art) and ymmv :)
Both the choice of OS and where hosted is infrastructure, operational issues, and rarely part of a startup's pitch. If there is a privacy or security component to the proposal's added value the hosting may be a factor (ie, not hosted in a Five Eyes country) but I think even that is less of a factor with revelations that much claimed protection is an illusion <https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/08/08/protonmail-fbi-search-led-to-a-suspect-threatening-a-2020-election-official/> .
yeah, but if i do happen to get a unicorn, i will not need to pitch anything to anyone as unicorns are as unicorns do - and you should just want to ride it, like a virgin! (o joy, I still remember 12 november 84) but, anyway, unicorns lay eggs as well as also give live birth (same as some lizards) and unicorns do affect people's lives. Lets say that you use my unicorn, but my unicorn works so well with "Big 8" and "Crush" but not so great with Pepsi, this may mean that Big 8 gets more rackspace at Price Depot, which indirectly influences even more people to buy Big 8