Although plausible, and part of it, it’s not just that. The second part is much more important (people unwilling to adapt), but one should think about why.
That’s the kind of stuff where companies & public administrations usually suck, “change management”.
I’ve seen Germany states jump into open source software strategies to later “regret” them and revert back to their previous state, many times… I hope this time they do it in a more thoughtful way, to avoid giving excuses to closed-source software lobbyists.
Very interesting :) , although I have the feeling we already have some features in place (and others on the way) trying to solve this same problem.
I don’t think talking in absolutes is the best way to tackling at problems. In this case, I would say there’s a gradient, and we can surely shift our current position from “utterly broken” to something more benign, even if there are still flaws pending to be corrected.
Starting from scratch would imply throwing away millions of hours of developer time. It’s tempting, but not feasible, and even if it was, it would be a bad economical decision.
Their product offers many more features (and more complex ones) than the other services you mentioned. And they also took the time to provide a commercial product, with paid support, integrations…
This is key for companies, as it makes it easier to be productive, plus the SLAs give some peace of mind too.
Oh, that’s a pity :( . I remember that my first open source program was precisely a wrapper around Youtube-dl circa 2007. I lost the code ^^U , but I had fun with it.
As a side note: That’s why we should keep mirrors of our open source projects. Consider Gitlab & Bitbucket as secondary mirrors… not sure about other alternatives. Ideas?
It uses the docker’s cli interface, so as far as I know, it should be compatible… with a two caveats:
Having said that, I definitely want to improve it and officially extend its support to Podman. I just need some time…
Also people who left Twitter or never were there. Fostering radicalization while censoring legit links to other much more peaceful communities is going to increase social conflicts, and this usually leads to real violence sooner or later.