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Linux runs on toasters because people with a vested interest in selling toasters running Linux pay people to do that work.
by cwyers 10y ago
Linux runs on toasters because people with a vested interest in selling toasters running Linux pay people to do that work.
- alasdair_ 10y agoThey could pay Microsoft to do the work too, then pay for licenses to use the software. Yet they (almost universally) choose not to, because the costs of even setting up such a deal are far too high. Open source reduces transaction costs and it also reduces startup costs.