Open-source companies gather to gripe: Cloud giants sell our code as a service – and we get the square root of nothing | Linux Today

Open-source companies gather to gripe: Cloud giants sell our code as a service – and we get the square root of nothing

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Thomas Claburn
Sep 20, 2019

Analysis On Thursday, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, companies building open-source code gathered to figure out how to survive having Amazon, Google, and Microsoft sell their software as a service without paying for the privilege.

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Thomas Claburn

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