> We are not coming back to decentralised systems, and we will -never- go back to that in any significant number.
In the 70s when mainframes (effectively same as cloud, remote access to someone else's computer) were king and small personal computers and workstations were just a toy, it seemed ridiculous to think centralized mainframes could ever be replaced.
So I will hold hope that things will swing back the other way at some point. As the cloud companies become more and more powerful they will inevitably become ever more abusive, so at some point enough people will look for better ways.
In the 70s when mainframes (effectively same as cloud, remote access to someone else's computer) were king and small personal computers and workstations were just a toy, it seemed ridiculous to think centralized mainframes could ever be replaced.
So I will hold hope that things will swing back the other way at some point. As the cloud companies become more and more powerful they will inevitably become ever more abusive, so at some point enough people will look for better ways.