It Was Never About Innovation
summary
Argues that open source already underpins the global economy (trillions of dollars) and that the four freedoms created a level playing field that produced agility and accidental innovation; shows how cloud providers run proprietary services on open-source stacks, creating new lock‑in via opaque APIs and data formats; proposes concrete criteria for an open cloud — open data formats, portable services, open protocols and open‑source front ends — and explains why data velocity and service portability matter.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:09Themes
- 17:15Freeloaders vs. Customers
- 20:19OPEN HYBRID CLOUDS
- 22:52Data is the new currency
- 24:28THE NEW LOCK-IN
- 26:34The 4 Freedoms
- 27:38WHAT IS THE OPEN CLOUD?
- 29:33Freedom in the Cloud
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