Faulty Paradigms for Business Week

Faulty Paradigms for Business Week

Posted Oct 25, 2005 18:17 UTC (Tue) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Faulty Paradigms for Business Week by NightMonkey
Parent article: Cold Realities For Novell (BusinessWeek)

Of course, it is *very nice* that Red Hat/Novell/etc employs many great F/OSS coders. But, it should be enough to show that the Linux ecosystem will move ahead - witness the existence of Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Apache, etc. This is software that can't be killed. To me, that's the whole point - not to be dependent on a vendor, unless you want to be.

Yes, probably this software can't be killed, but can be seriously hindered. I seem to remember a comment from Andrew Morton on this site that the load on the lkml drops during weekends nowadays, and this wasn't the case some years ago. I wonder how many of the kernel, GNOME or KDE developers are actually paid for their work on Linux - and don't forget that this software is included in Debian, Gentoo, etc. too.

Bye,NAR

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