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Established corporations will be doing yoinking, with a pre-existing credibility. There's a huge incentive to offer these copied services for cents on the dolla

Established corporations will be doing yoinking, with a pre-existing credibility. There's a huge incentive to offer these copied services for cents on the dollar, as a way to kill the competition.

judahmeek 7mo ago
Credibility doesn't transfer easily. Anyone who yoinks an open-source package still has to present an argument about why their offering is better than the original maintainer's.
- anematode 7mo ago
  When push comes to shove, cheapness and hype can shove.
- atrocious 7mo ago
  I agree, but it's historically been as simple as "you already use AWS for everything else". For example, ElasticSearch.
remus 7mo ago
It'll be interesting to see if this happens at a service level too. Like how lots of companies offer an S3 compatible API, will companies start offering similar services and building a compatibility layer over the top as an easy way to for customers to transition? You could use the existing service as a test suite to check your compatibility API behaves the same as the original product.