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There are a few Billion/Trillion Dollar companies using Linux. Each of them can easiely aford to sponsor an entire Rack of Servers.
Logic can do nothing when faced with inscrutable greed.
Not just inscrutable, insatiable too.
You need to think of the poor share holders man
FoSS hosting goes down: Awww it's okay.
AWS: You fucking donkey 🤣
The difference being that one is a billion dollar company whose only job is to stay online, for which they are being paid even more money while building and supporting fascist regimes in order to grow even more, while the other is a handful of people with two hosts, paid/financed barely enough, without doing nothing but that (serving Linux anonymously).
Also, AWS went down due to the stupidest shit imaginable.
A Raid 6 Array going down, that's the first time I heard of that. Either one/two drives were dead for longer, or three drives just died instantly. That's just unlucky for everyone. And instead of said fascist supporters (read: fascists) going down, it's core infra of the Libre/FOSS existence.
AWS going down
Now that would be the news. Statistically unique event hitting a specific group of people disliked by corporate? Defo would sound suspicious if you ask me.
OTOOH, "one of the only two pending storages of a project goes down that, by sheer density of the corporate users list, should have at least eight storages made available" sounds like a weird... secondhand schadenfraude, to call it somewhat.
For good reason.
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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