@Godort @Killercat103 It’s so funny (to me) how this would potentially sound so dirty to someone unfamiliar with Open Source software.
Dan Sneddon
Distributed systems/cloud network architect. Senior Principal Software Engineer, OpenStack & Kubernetes. I design, automate, & secure hyperscale networks.
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1·2 years ago@poVoq @Jake_Farm This is so true. Red Hat’s true value is that it is the beating heart of the Open Source movement itself. Even companies like Canonical are essentially repackaging a combination of Red Hat’s work and the work of hobbyists. Notable exceptions are Google (creator of Kubernetes), and Netflix (creator of a host of useful singular tools), but for the most part foundations such as Cloud Native Computing, OpenStack/OpenDev, Apache, Mozilla, Linux, Gnome, FSF, and more are carrying water for all the corporations benefitting from Open Source. IBM realized how much of their bottom line was owed to Red Hat, which is why they thought it was worth paying $34 billion to own it in whole.
@shapis I couldn’t afford a PC that could handle Windows 3.11 properly, and I had to delve into the source code to get the new Linux v1.0 release candidate kernels working on my Slackware system. I had no idea at the time that would be the basis of my career for nearly three decades now.