You said "Many businesses ARE fully vertically integrated." so why name one that is close to fully vertically integrated, just name one of the many others that are fully vertically integrated. I don't really care about discussing things which prove my point instead of your point as if they prove your point.
> open source projects, many are close to perfectly verifically integrated
Comparing code to services seems odd, not sure how GitLab the software compares to GitLab the service for example. Code is just code, a service requires servers to run on, etc. GitLab the software can't have uptime because it's just code. It can only have an uptime once someone starts running it, at which point you can't attribute everything to the software anymore as the people running it have a great deal of responsibility for how well it runs, and even then, even if GitLab the software would have been "close to perfectly vertically integrated" (like if they used no OS, as if anyone would ever want that), then the GitLab serivice still needs many things from other suppliers to operate.
And again, "close to perfectly verifically integrated" is not "perfectly verifically integrated".
If you are wrong, and in fact nothing in our modern world is fully vertically integrated as I said, then it's best to just admit that and move on from that and continue discussing reality.
You said "Many businesses ARE fully vertically integrated." so why name one that is close to fully vertically integrated, just name one of the many others that are fully vertically integrated. I don't really care about discussing things which prove my point instead of your point as if they prove your point.
> open source projects, many are close to perfectly verifically integrated
Comparing code to services seems odd, not sure how GitLab the software compares to GitLab the service for example. Code is just code, a service requires servers to run on, etc. GitLab the software can't have uptime because it's just code. It can only have an uptime once someone starts running it, at which point you can't attribute everything to the software anymore as the people running it have a great deal of responsibility for how well it runs, and even then, even if GitLab the software would have been "close to perfectly vertically integrated" (like if they used no OS, as if anyone would ever want that), then the GitLab serivice still needs many things from other suppliers to operate.
And again, "close to perfectly verifically integrated" is not "perfectly verifically integrated".
If you are wrong, and in fact nothing in our modern world is fully vertically integrated as I said, then it's best to just admit that and move on from that and continue discussing reality.