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made the 'kicking the big tech' a bit more 'positive'

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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ When in our project plan it is mentioned that we use 'Open Source Software' we m
* Not governed by a 'tech giant' (companies that have more than 10.000 employees)
* In a fully open 'ecosystem' (no 'opencore')
We are especially vigilant towards systems that are open source, but require (excessive) payments to get to 'the good stuff' or lock you in to a non-open ecosystem. If alternatives exist we will prefer to use those. Examples[^1].
We are especially vigilant towards systems that are open source, but require (excessive) payments to get to 'the good stuff' or lock you in to a non-open ecosystem. If alternatives exist we will prefer to use those.
The most important reason for this is that we want to make the barrier to use our proposed setup as low as possible, both in cost as in legal options.
@ -41,9 +41,7 @@ The Hosting Sector entails:
* traditional hosting companies (it infrastructure consultants with their own hardware and usually leased datacenter-space)
* open micro-cloud providers (more on this below)
We see a strange movement in the Open Source world where software is being made based on open principles, but then hosted (and geared towareds hosting on) the big tech hyperscalers: Microsoft, Google, Amazon. In our view this is 'throwing away the baby with the bathwater', we want to make sure that this is no longer needed.
There are people that use companies like OVH, Hetzner, Strato, Tilaa, Team Blue. But these companies also do not further the open source ecosystem, they too (like the hyperscalers) are mainly in it for the money. The very well described process of Enshittification, by Cory Doctorow, is already kicking in at some of these providers.
We see a strange movement in the Open Source world where software is being made based on open principles, but then hosted (and geared towareds hosting on) the big tech hyperscalers. With our solution you would not need those hyperscalers but would instead be able to run locally.
We want to enable small idealistic 'micro-cloud' providers with the tools to succeed.
@ -53,6 +51,3 @@ Micro-cloud providers are small (not for profit) organisations that consist at l
* experienced local sales and marketing staff (to get a durable client base)
These micro-cloud providers should (based on the tooling that we provide) be able to supply 1000's of customers with access to the Fediverse without the need to use Big Tech.
[^1]:Examples of non-open ecosystems are (with alternatives): * docker (alternative: lxc) * kubernetes * zimbra (alternative: normal mailservers) * macOS (alternative: NixOS) * MySQL (alternative MariaDB) * GitLab (alternative: Forgejo)