Sure, that’d be nice. I don’t believe there is anything remotely close to GCP capability that can be assembled from open source. (Wait, is that so hard? Actually yes, getting to the hyper part of hyperscaler is staggeringly complex. There are problems that come up at scale that you wouldn’t even imagine are problems one can have.)
It would be fantastic if the EU funded an open source GCP equivalent, mind you; but then we’re talking basically founding a GCP competitor and years of work for a large number of top engineers. Balance that against just locking GCP into a tight contract that severely disincentives withholding updates and it’s an easy decision.
EDIT: Oh, if you mean, the contracts should force GCP to open source their stack, I don’t see a path to that happening for a bunch of reasons. GCP would just walk away from the deal. That said, a clause that escrows the sources, to be released to S3NS should GCP unilaterally withdraw from the contract, that’s not unreasonable and might actually exist, I don’t know.
Sure, that’d be nice. I don’t believe there is anything remotely close to GCP capability that can be assembled from open source. (Wait, is that so hard? Actually yes, getting to the hyper part of hyperscaler is staggeringly complex. There are problems that come up at scale that you wouldn’t even imagine are problems one can have.)
It would be fantastic if the EU funded an open source GCP equivalent, mind you; but then we’re talking basically founding a GCP competitor and years of work for a large number of top engineers. Balance that against just locking GCP into a tight contract that severely disincentives withholding updates and it’s an easy decision.
EDIT: Oh, if you mean, the contracts should force GCP to open source their stack, I don’t see a path to that happening for a bunch of reasons. GCP would just walk away from the deal. That said, a clause that escrows the sources, to be released to S3NS should GCP unilaterally withdraw from the contract, that’s not unreasonable and might actually exist, I don’t know.