[gentoo-nfp] Social contract and its effect on vendors and service delivery.

[Alec Warner]

Hi,

The infrastructure team often receives feedback that services are slow. One
idea we have to improve service delivery for users is to offer edge
connectivity closer to users. We generally have two choices here:
  - We can build out an edge by buying machines in various data centers;
installing a reverse proxy on them, and then backhauling the traffic to our
service origin.
 - We can buy these services from many different CDN providers who have
already done the first step; for a nominal fee[0].

Is it against the social contract to purchase these CDN services?
Is it against the social contract to purchase these CDN services, even if
the services are provided via open source software?

-A

[0] I'm not intending to have a fiscal argument; there are obvious
tradeoffs between buy / build and money. I'm interested in the social
contract only for the moment.
-A