From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:13:35 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > On 10/13/2025 10:03 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:20:43 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> On 10/13/2025 8:20 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 19:26:56 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Enterprises with a need to document support can not just hire a   
   >>>>> random consultant when the need arrive.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If something is mission-critical and core to their entire business,   
   >>>> they want a staff they can rely on, completely, to manage that   
   >>>> properly.   
   >>>   
   >>> Few/no CIO's want to support the hundreds of millions of lines of open   
   >>> source code their business rely on themselves.   
   >>   
   >> The whole point of having all that code is that they didn’t need to   
   >> write it themselves.   
   >   
   > Yes. But they want free beer more than free speech.   
      
   They want to cut costs, in particular compliance costs. They don’t want to   
   be nickel-and-dimed to death over things like CALs every time they want to   
   do a new deployment. They want the flexibility to be able to adapt to   
   changing business circumstances.   
      
   That’s the mindset of a successful business.   
      
   >> You have to take responsibility for your own business, don’t you?   
   >   
   > They don't want to write or maintain their own OS.   
   >   
   > They don't want to write or maintain their own platform software   
   > (web/app servers, database servers, message queue servers, cache servers   
   > etc.).   
   >   
   > They don't want to write or maintain their own tools (compilers, build   
   > tools, IDE's, source control, unit test frameworks etc.).   
   >   
   > None of that stuff is their business.   
      
   Open Source doesn’t give you turnkey black boxes. You have to have some   
   expertise in at least configuring the underlying layers, and sometimes in   
   how to patch them. That goes with the territory.   
      
   > They want to focus on their business the applications that help them   
   > produce and sell whatever products or services.   
      
   Sure they do. But all abstractions are leaky: no matter how much you   
   pretend otherwise, there will be issues to do with the lower layers that   
   you will need to be mindful of.   
      
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