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Seems to me Linux success is largely due to commercial vendors developing many features as aggressively as they would do for closed source products. If it were
by geodel 6y ago
Seems to me Linux success is largely due to commercial vendors developing many features as aggressively as they would do for closed source products. If it were just engineers working gratis on saturday afternoon Linux wouldn't be where it is today.
- dgb23 6y agoIsn't that an argument for it being free and open? Whether contributors get paid is orthogonal to freedom and openness. It's hard to imagine what would have happened if there was no GNU Linux, Apache, SQLite... [insert gigantic list of open source technology that almost everyone in our field relies on].