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How tech went from free love to pay-per-click FOSS , AI , and the cycle of empty nonsense Devconf.cz was at Red Hat's developer conference.
The software industry is undergoing a similar developmental pattern to that which other manufacturing industries went through after the Second World War .
Now very similar market forces to those that drove the evolution of FOSS are now driving AI in a sort of race to the bottom.
Open source OSes and server software have not out-competed each other on the strengths of their user friendliness, for instance.
Free software that works well enough but needs a bit more effort from the user appeals to a certain sort of person who works with computers for a living.
Software efficiency is at an all-time low, and bloat is worse than ever, but sales can be kept trickling in thanks to customers' need for a constant stream of security patches.
Software can keep getting bigger and slower only for as long as computers keep getting faster.
No need to do any of that tedious mucking around with infrastructure, with expensive hardware and complicated software. That all becomes someone else's problem, leaving you only with trivial implementation details such as where your data is, who else can get at it, and if there's any way to get it back again. As capacity in the big datacenters climbs to effective infinity, and costs of storage become tiny, and costs of software shrink to basically zero , executives must look elsewhere for ways to cut costs, or increase margins, or gain some other edge. That is what we will look at next..
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