The "burgers and fries" cloud business model exploits open source
The Decentralized Future of Cloud Infrastructure (Outlyer)
“They follow a model called burgers and fries model: they give you compute cheap [and] charge you for other things that are not compute… Majority [of] the revenues for [Google] comes [from] value-added services… Google Dataproc, which is essentially Databricks’ Spark… Databricks does not make anything [like] what Google makes on that product. Similarly you see [it with] Redis, with Amazon ElastiCache.” — 00:03:47
Context: Argues cloud adoption destroyed the hosted-model monetization of open source — “centralized cloud is the biggest [beneficiary] of open source software [and] they don’t really contribute that much.”