On 2014-08-14 09:33:20 -0400 (-0400), Russell Bryant wrote: [...] > Another issue is that some folks are just fundamentally opposed to > using Google [...]
I think that's a shallow depiction of the issue. I'm sure *some* people really do just avoid Google specifically, but a bigger concern should be around the statement our use of those services presents to the rest of the World. By using commercial solutions because the open alternatives aren't as useful/featureful/stable, we rob those projects of a potential larger user community which could help them achieve greater momentum and eventually dominate their respective technologies. Would we, as a community, rather see OpenStack used in production and improved when it has bugs/lacks features? Or should users just view it as a cheap lab platform instead, and then pay for "solid" proprietary solutions to their production needs? I'm glad a lot of people think using and improving OpenStack, even when there might sometimes be easier/simpler closed alternatives, is worth the long-term investment. We, as visible leaders among the greater free software community, should think very hard when making the choice not to extend this same courtesy and consideration to other projects who may lack our extraordinary base of resources. Through our example as a project, we have the potential to improve things for open/free software communities far beyond our own. Of course I'm not a nova core reviewer and have never attended a nova mid-cycle meetup, so I really have no say in how you conduct your remote participation. But I do hope you'll consider, collectively, that focusing on immediate convenience for your own community can have negative longer-term consequences as you (whether consciously or not) promote the use of proprietary solutions to your needs rather than embracing less convenient free and open options which may still require improvement. -- Jeremy Stanley _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
