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Cool, but not relevant to the point being made. Without Linux Facebook wouldn’t have got off the ground either. That doesn’t mean Facebook is a Linux service,
by orf 6y ago
Cool, but not relevant to the point being made.
Without Linux Facebook wouldn’t have got off the ground either. That doesn’t mean Facebook is a Linux service, their use of Linux (like Android) is entirely an implementation detail.
- jacquesm 6y agoAt their scale today it could have worked, but the question is if they would have gotten there in the first place. All these companies making untold billions off the back of FOSS could at least be kind enough to acknowledge that fact, rather than to bury it.
- orf 6y agoThey all do, through kernel patches, funding, open-source releases, talks and a lot more. Google especially has done a lot. But that doesn’t change the fact that the operating system Facebook, Google or Android uses is an implementation detail of the main service they offer.
- jacquesm 6y agoIf Google or Facebook would have had to pay the full license fees for one of the major Unix distributions they would have simply never gotten off the ground in the first place. One of those 'uncomfortable truths' I guess that people simply don't want to acknowledge.
- orf 6y agoI’m not really sure what point you’re trying to make. For lack of a better word you seem salty about something but it’s really not clear exactly what. Do you want a 90's era “powered by Linux” image on the Google or Facebook homepage? However the fact remains: Facebook’s use of PHP is an implementation detail, as is it’s use of Linux.