Because the same people organized both, for broadly speaking the same reasons

Hey now Kirkland brand is respectable, usually premium brands repackaged. Such as how Costco vodka was secretly (“secretly”) Grey Goose

Marketing works, and executives aren’t that smart

Qualcomm bought VM ware after Dell spit it out.

They proceeded to basically jack the price and otherwise alienate much of the user base. In a world where AWS is a thing, you saw a lot of companies walk, and there was a general lamentation for enterprise on-prem virtualization options.

SLA and support is the biggest one. We had to pay Migrants for Docker Enterprise licenses just in case we needed support or some sort of liability shield.

Have you priced out big data and compute in GCP?

Sure it’s inflated as hell, but Google has a lot of expensive devs to pay

I ain’t dragging 2 carloads of pots, pans, desks, and clothes back home for 3 months when I know I’ll be living in probably the same dorm again very soon. A waste of gas, time, and money.

When I was in college I just stayed in the same dorm and worked. If I had to remove shit I’d have done similar to OP, minus the cool case

“was”?

I think “is currently” is the correct read.

Also my head cannon for Battletech, and is explicitly the reason why Gundam fight so close.

Most US tracks are 4 laps to a mile, or about 400 meters.

Capitalism reduces everything to transactional relationships

Guns are the only alternative to the tech oligarchy.

You think they can’t buy, manipulate, or just crush decentralized social media? If anything they can do it easily, divide and conquer. FOSS ain’t gonna free you, esp. when the largest contributors to FOSS projects are big corps.