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> europeans these days are the real power players in the oss world Eh, it depends. A lot of the work is definitely carried out by Europeans (particularly aroun
by toyg 5y ago
> europeans these days are the real power players in the oss world
Eh, it depends. A lot of the work is definitely carried out by Europeans (particularly around KDE and Linux kernel), but when it comes to actually setting priorities, it's the likes of IBM, RedHat, Canonical, and Google, who draw the real roadmaps - and those are basically all US-based businesses.
You can observe that in the privileged position GNOME continues to enjoy, when KDE is historically much more relevant in Europe.
- ChuckNorris89 5y ago>but when it comes to actually setting priorities, it's the likes of IBM, RedHat, Canonical, and Google, who draw the real roadmaps - and those are basically all US-based businesses. This. Linux is not where it is today just thanks to some passionate geeks doing charity work in their spare time but mostly thanks to the billions the likes of Sun, Oracle, Google, Alibaba, Red-Hat, IBM, SAP, Intel, Cloudflare, SGI(RIP), that have poured billions over the last decades into linux and all accompanying modules like filesystems, desktop environments, networking, etc. All this was possible thanks to those evil megacorp bucks.