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True but you can run Linux on your own machine but it doesn’t stop anyone from paying AWS or Microsoft to handle it for them.
Give it 6 months and Amazon will be running this model for you "serverless" with a code name making it seem like their own product.
they do this with other models
Yes but people will pay redhat Linux to use a distro with support. Also almost the entire US internet server infrastructure runs on Linux.
So yeah a company can provide an open source product with commercial support
never seen this happen in my 20 years career
Bizarre, I guess their business has been running on hopes and dreams instead of money for the past 30 years lol.
that was my assumption