2mo ago

GNOME Has a New Infrastructure Partner: Welcome AWS!

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- Amazon is giving this service to Gnome for free. If anything, this is hurting them.
  
  that makes it extra sus tho
Amazon is a bad company, but since many bad actors are contributing to the Linux kernel, I’m willing to just think about the good stuff it’s gonna allow Gnome to do..still it sounds bad..
For some reason, this has been getting a lot of push back on Gnome's Mastodon.
Keep in mind that this changes nothing for you as a Gnome user. It changes little even if you develop for Gnome. However, this frees of a lot of resources for Gnome. Gnome is getting the infrastructure for all their needs for free (for now) and don't need to worry about maintenance of the hardware.
- "for some reason"
  
  Could you please explain further?
  How does free infrastructure hosting from AWS hurt anyone? There’s no privacy concerns and this helps Gnome’s development.
  The only way this will hurt is if Gnome is not prepared to switch away once their credits are up.
- „for now“
People will bitch and moan and scream about this, but it's free and Gnome doesn't have the money to pay for it elsewhere.
It's a real problem in the FOSS world. Users don't want to pay, but they're very happy to demand features or for the devs/organisation to be run in a certain way or for them to spend a shit load on XYZ, all in order to be ideologically pure.
This is the real world. Unfortunately given their lack of capital, Gnome needs freebies for this, and AWS was offering.

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