in practice. In theory, I do. I think they're great. But but in practice, I've not really been excited by them. And it often seems to be a poor excuse for something not having open source. It just doesn't have the source code available to you. So you get the SDK instead and you can play around with that with with those things. But but that's all you get to play with. And so a Google cloud or Amazon cloud or whatever cloud provider you're using may have some kind of SDK or or have an API. They may even broadcast it as an open API. Like that's a big deal because. OK, so it's an it's an open API in front of something that is completely non-open. And and so you get to use that SDK in the in the way that they want you to use it because it's it's written in a specific language. They're providing libraries for some subset of languages or language. And that's it. That's as much as you get. That's a huge statement if you really think about it. I mean, that's that's saying that a proprietary (39/53)
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