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by rmbyrro 920 days ago
Because, although they speak against AWS outrageous margins, they want a monopoly to secure high margins as well.

If they open sourced, they'd need to compete against copy cats.

This is understandable. They need to protect themselves and maybe become profitable.

I would just prefer they didn't pretend to be so much different from AWS, Azure or GCP. This isn't open. The source is publicized, but not open. They discriminate, which goes against the essence of the open source principle.