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The fate of “small” open source
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this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2025
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The Microsoft Azure backend runs on Linux servers.
Your phone, router and all your networking hardware run on Linux or BSD.
Can you guess what's the back-end of VMWare? Veeam? FortiGate?
in the post of "small" open source, guess what kind of open source i am talking about.
How many production applications use Node, and therefore pull in a million dependencies like this?
slavery was legal
The 1800s called, they want their non sequitur back.
Any Linux system includes hundreds of small OSS projects.