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* You might have a choice of carriers or ISPs, but many don't.

* Hmm, what kind of software do you write that pays your bills?

* And your setup doesn't require any external infrastructure to be kept up to date?



> ...but many don't.

And many do. The US isn't the entire world, you know.

> ...what kind of software do you write that pays your bills?

B2B software that allows anyone to run their workloads with most any cloud provider, and most any on-prem "cloud". The entire point of this software is to abstract out the underlying infrastructure so that businesses can walk away from a particular vendor if that vendor gets too stroppy.

> ...your setup doesn't require any external infrastructure...

It's Gentoo Linux, so it runs largely on donated infra (and infra paid for with donations). But -unlike Windows or OS X users- if I get sick of what the Gentoo steering committee are doing, I can go to another distro (or just fucking roll my own should things get truly dire). That's the point of my comment.




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