If I can't use it as a daemon-focused package manager that works more-or-less the same everywhere with minimal friction without having to learn or recall the particulars of whatever distro (hell, on my home server it even saves me from having to fuck with systemd) and with isolation so I can run a bunch of versions of anything, I'll probably just stop using it.
Everything else about it is secondary to its role as the de facto universal package manager for open source server software, from my perspective.
... of course, this is exactly the kind of thing they don't want, because it costs money without making any—but I do wonder if this'll bite them in the ass, long-term, from loss of mindshare. Maybe building in some kind of transparent bandwidth-sharing scheme (bittorrent/DHT or whatever) would have been a better move. I'd enable it on my server at home, at least, provided I could easily set some limits to keep it from going too nuts.
If I can't use it as a daemon-focused package manager that works more-or-less the same everywhere with minimal friction without having to learn or recall the particulars of whatever distro (hell, on my home server it even saves me from having to fuck with systemd) and with isolation so I can run a bunch of versions of anything, I'll probably just stop using it.
Everything else about it is secondary to its role as the de facto universal package manager for open source server software, from my perspective.
... of course, this is exactly the kind of thing they don't want, because it costs money without making any—but I do wonder if this'll bite them in the ass, long-term, from loss of mindshare. Maybe building in some kind of transparent bandwidth-sharing scheme (bittorrent/DHT or whatever) would have been a better move. I'd enable it on my server at home, at least, provided I could easily set some limits to keep it from going too nuts.