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> You can shop around for a consultancy or engineer and pay them to try to debug the issue, but they’re always going to be coming in as a 3rd party Except for
by jamiesonbecker 6y ago
> You can shop around for a consultancy or engineer and pay them to try to debug the issue, but they’re always going to be coming in as a 3rd party
Except for software that was written in-house or the packaging itself, RH or Canonical would also always be coming in as a third party.
... whereas your consultant might be the original author of the upstream code.
- symlinkk 6y agoMost Linux software is written by Red Hat. GNOME, Wayland, and systemd are all Red Hat projects. They are even a major contributor to the kernel itself.
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- jamiesonbecker 6y ago> Most Linux software is written by Red Hat.. even a major contributor to the kernel itself. Oh! I didn't realize Red Hat had hired RMS. :-/ Setting aside the controversial nature of those three specific projects (and the fact that this statement is demonstrably false), this statement demeans the contributions of thousands of coders, even from before Linux existed. (let alone before Red Hat was a gleam on Bob Young's head.)