Similar to what happened before with, eg, Linux, big vendors will hire those maintainers. Good code isn't going away. It's simply going to be written by communities comprised of self-interested actors rather than one self-interested vendor. There's nothing healthy abt the latter
I don't think it's a the great approach, but I do think that it's possible to tilt the situation a bit away from the big cloud providers on a license basis (say AGPL, except not badly drafted). While staying open source. IMO the downsides are larger than the upsides, but ...
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(note that I don't think any such license would end up actually preventing cloud providers from hosting such software, just possibly making it economically less interesting)
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