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You mean, if there were other successful companies other than RedHat, the ecosystem would be more diverse?

• dralley 6y ago
  SUSE is successful too, just small. Canonical has a wide audience but they've been unable to actually translate that into a self-sustaining business. They're lucky that Mark Shuttleworth is committed guy and not too attached to his stacks of money.
  • 1996 6y ago
    I see Ubuntu future in the hands of Microsoft!
  • turminal 6y ago
    I just asked GP to clarify what he meant. My original comment was exactly about the ways canonical, SUSE, Debian and others are dependent on RedHat. Canonical attempted to develop upstart as their in house systemd alternative but they failed. Exactly the same thing happened with their attempt at their own graphics stack. I don't know a lot about SUSE, but iirc their distro is also systemd based. Edit: Suse's package manager is also based on RPM.
    • pmarin 6y ago
      upstart predates systemd by 4 years.
      • turminal 6y ago
        I know. My comment was poorly worded and it reads as if it was the other way around but that doesn't invalidate the fact that they had their own tool and it failed.