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No it can’t.
by CheezeIt 5y ago
No it can’t.
- kube-system 5y agoI bought my first Linux distro in a box on a shelf in a store.
- CheezeIt 5y agoBe serious.
- kube-system 5y agoI am serious. And Red Hat had $3.4 billion in revenue the year it was acquired. There are plenty of people getting paid to write open source software. The top contributors to open source projects are frequently for-profit companies. Open source != hobbyist. There’s nothing about paid software development that requires source code to be kept private.
- CheezeIt 5y agoTheir customers aren’t paying for the software.
- kube-system 5y agoThey do make a lot of money from value add services, but in some cases, yes they absolutely are paying for software. This is fairly common when people want features/updates that don’t yet exist.
- CheezeIt 5y agoThat’s paying for the development of the software.
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- redis_mlc 5y agoMy first linux distro was 40 floppies, then an Yggdrasil CD, then various Redhat and SUSE (for Reiserfs) boxed sets from Fry's. The guy in my apt. building who loaned me the floppies got a full-time linux job the next day. :) The huge advantage of Linux over SCO (which was unbundled) were the free networking, X11, compilers ... and multiple virtual terminals. So I was one of the first serious Reiserfs users - even SUSE reps don't believe me when I say I was using it in production (for mail server workloads) around 2001. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS
- latexr 5y agoKeka[1] and Textual[2] are both open-source and you can pay for them on the Mac App Store or direct purchase. The former gives you compiled builds either way; the latter only if you pay. [1]: https://github.com/aonez/Keka https://github.com/aonez/Keka [2]: https://github.com/Codeux-Software/Textual https://github.com/Codeux-Software/Textual