R. Quenett wrote: > I just saw a comment on blfs-support@ referencing "the *corporate* > nature of Linux now (Thanks Novell, Red Hat, Microsoft (they have a > huge part now), and Debian)."
For *many* years now most of the lead Linux developers have been employed fulltime by large corporations to do Linux development. And this has been *essential* to Linux's success. There is no way that Linux could have levelled up from "one-person hacker project" to "running the world" without that corporate support. (I am not saying that this is good. Nor am I saying that it is bad. I am just pointing out that it is true.) > It's very concerning to me to contemplate that microsoft might have > a significant involvement in Linux Microsoft is getting involved with Linux because Linux *won*. Microsoft tried to destroy Linux and it *failed*. The bad old Microsoft of "embrace, extend, extinguish" is dead and buried with multiple stakes through its heart, and one of those stakes is Linux. Linux owns *everything* except the desktop and the smartphone. Linux merely dominates the smartphone, and its only serious competitor there is Apple. Windows still owns the desktop, but it even there it is losing. (Pieter Hintchens (RIP) pointed out that Windows 10 is now literally malware, because its creators are desperately trying to force it on people who don't want it.) EORANT Jeremy Henty -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
