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Yes American companies have been good at capitalizing on IT and a lot of companies are "by the balls" of Microsoft, but much infra is opensource. Linux runs the
by lillecarl 1y ago
Yes American companies have been good at capitalizing on IT and a lot of companies are "by the balls" of Microsoft, but much infra is opensource. Linux runs the world.
- stefanfisk 1y agoLinus moved to the US two decades ago, so it's been quite a while since Linux could be considered "European".
- lillecarl 1y agoI think it should be considered what it is, global with profits centered in the US.
- ghaff 1y agoCertainly, the are a fair number of contributors in Europe and both SUSE and Canonical are European based. I still think it's hard not to think of Linux as fairly US-centric however if only because of how many large US companies use (and contribute to) Linux.
- lillecarl 1y agoValid, I've noticed that a lot of non-US contributors work for American corporations too. It's a bit ideological for me ("OSS is global") so I think I might gaslight myself into believing it's more equal than it is. I'm happy wherever the contributions come from either way but I will never call Linux US-centric! Lennart Poettering(German, works for American corps) comes to mind as an example, though not a kernel developer.
- csomar 1y agoMost people do not interface with Linux on a bare metal, self-assembled server. They use AWS, GCP and Azure. There is Alibaba Cloud but it is so bad, I can't even properly signup/signin. > Linux runs the world. The world infra runs on top of Linux. Linux is open source. Most of this infra is American.
- lillecarl 1y agoIs AWS Stockholm American? It's a bit of a stretch, it's profits surely go to America and the control plane is American.
- csomar 1y agoAnother way to think of it: AWS Stockholm is a pipeline to navigate Sweden regulation/laws/banking to funnel money out of there. The core is still American/controlled in America. Otherwise, people would have just hosted in a Swedish hosting platform.
- lillecarl 1y agoSwedish power, Swedish backbone, Taiwanese chips and boards, and an American control plane. But yes you're right, it's an American service offering that I for cost reasons and I avoid big cloud like the plague. USA surely knows how to charge for their services and lock customers in