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People love to hate on IBM, ask why it is relevant today, while several of their beloved FOSS projects are in some way, form or fashion, made possible with IBM'

by pjmlp 4mo ago

People love to hate on IBM, ask why it is relevant today, while several of their beloved FOSS projects are in some way, form or fashion, made possible with IBM's money.

Oras 4mo ago
which beloved FOSS were funded by IBM?
- rswail 4mo ago
  They effectively funded the legal defense against SCO that was trying to claim ownership of the IPR to Unix/Linux. They bought and funded (and still fund) Redhat which funds Fedora and GNOME and Wayland and systemd.
- wolvesechoes 4mo ago
  Seems they own Red Hat, which is some no-name company that has nothing to do with Linux.