I feel like we learned 20 years ago that buying proprietary software has a bunch of problems, so we switched to open source software. But in the last 10 years, we started buying software services, and now we have all those problems back again (corporate stability, vendor lock-in, principal agent problems, etc.). Maybe we will learn how to run our own software at some point without fully staffed teams of SREs?
Because along the way the people creating open source software also have bills to pay, and found out that living outside Hotel Mama comes with own set of caveats.
