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> They claimed to want to start open sourcing large parts of their tech from 2023 onwards.

My background is enterprise, finance. I talk to enterprises frequently. Question this as hard as you can. They will never act like Google, Facebook, Netflix. In short: don't work for the OS side of enterprises. There is none.

"large parts" - which? In corporate "large parts" is different from tech people.

"from 2023..." - well, this tale is a running gag at least at my company. Telling this since 2017: "Next year!" There are a lot of processes involved, finance fears of losing intellectual property, decision makers are usually business people who know next to nothing about tech people thinking and reasoning.

Banks fear of code injections, have to deal with regulators, don't want to deal with an OS community, because costs - that's my experience. Ask them about these topics and you can sense how realistic these claims are.




I'm in enterprise, insurance industry. Our witticism for future functionality is "Any decade now!"

Enterprises are slow, they have high inertia for many reasons and tech can only affect that so much.




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