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Sir, this is a multi-billion dollar operation. There have to be some incentives.
by KeplerBoy 3mo ago
Sir, this is a multi-billion dollar operation. There have to be some incentives.
- bigyabai 3mo agoYou could argue that Linux is a trillion-dollar project, it doesn't shift the goalposts.
- polyomino 3mo agoLinux is a huge project and is not really comparable to Debian
- esseph 3mo agoThis is an interesting statement that I found myself reading from two different interpretations of what you meant, and I find both possibilities to be equally true depending on your POV.
- abalashov 3mo agoYeah, but the trillion dollars are not concentrated in the Linux kernel project, but instead distributed all over the planet. That's not how the AI lab economy works.
- m000 3mo ago[flagged]
- liamwire 3mo agoI like the comparison, but I'm not sure it holds. What did it cost him to develop beyond intangibles such as his time and money forgone? Because the latter especially is not equivalent to upfront capex and opex costs that preempt any ability to be charitable. Genuinely asking, but I'd be hard pressed to think it's even within the same magnitude.
- rzerowan 3mo agoWell there is a close equivalent today where a similar situation is playing out.With the argument being made that the dev cost aside - the pricing is being tied to what the potential future treatments would have cost. Save a child from crippling illness and a lifetime of pain with a single dhot: Jonas Salk 0$ ,Doug Ingram 3.2M$ [1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20260118223436/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gene-therapy-medical-breakthrough-at-enormous-multi-million-dollar-cost-60-minutes/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260118223436/https://www.cbsne...