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charcircuit • today at 7:08 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

This article is biased towards open source developers and ignores all the employees at tier 1 backbones who are the ones actually holding up the internet.


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perlgeek • today at 7:13 AM

The difference is that the employees at tier 1 backbone providers get paid, and if one of them quits, there is an organization responsible (and incentivized) to hire and train replacements.

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