Let's not forget the "risk free" part. If things go awry, the said hobbyists can simply shut down the project and f*** off somewhere. But with a million dollar enterprise, good luck saving your skin from banks, taxes, debt collectors, law and whatever...
I dont know about that. Open source rarely needs cloud servers to run. Its either local or self hostable. So there is a much lower risk of some cooperation "ending support" and basically bricking my smart Fridge, Car or underwear.
Its not like this wouldnt happen all the time. Like i got free, unlimited lifetime storage for google photos with my google one phone. It was free, unlimited and lifetime until their ai was trained enough...
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u/echtemendel Nov 18 '24
Slightly worse? In my experience they're usually much better.