For large scale compute clusters with elastic load I absolutely care. The difference between one and five minutes of boot time when I ask for a hundred new instances to be provisioned is huge in terms of responsiveness to customer requests.

I bet pardoning the 1/6ers qualifies as giving aid and comfort.

When they own the platform they can use it to serve you catered disinformation.

They can have your data but unless they can also decide what you see as a result, it’s not the same thing.

That’s the difference.