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>Linux happened and nobody paid (in the beginning) Red Hat started in 1993 and SUSE in 1994. So you got 2 whole years before money entered the picture.
by marcinzm 4y ago
>Linux happened and nobody paid (in the beginning)
Red Hat started in 1993 and SUSE in 1994. So you got 2 whole years before money entered the picture.
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- b112 4y agoIn the early years, these companies were tiny, struggled to not go out of business. And because they were so small, they contributed very little paid time... anywhere. Linux happened for free.
- fauigerzigerk 4y agoYes, Linux was started for free as a student project, but the reason why it became the standard choice for data centers is because large corporations like Oracle, IBM and later Google united behind it in order to stop Microsoft from dominating servers. These corporations along with some commercial distributions have been funding Linux development for decades. Linux as we know it today is a child of corporate strategic thinking.
- SoftTalker 4y agoIBM, DEC, Sun, HP and others already had commercial Unix offerings with support that corporate users wanted for servers. Why unite behind Linux, which at the time was inferior to all those others?
- mixmastamyk 4y agoTo attack Windows from the top and bottom simultaneously. It may seem excessive but MS was in a very strong position at the time. Many of us wondered if anything else would survive.
- tokai 4y agoI'm not against Red Hat but the sentiment that they are ruining Linux is not that uncommon.