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Corporations will attempt to fuck up the Fediverse like they did with the majority of the internet (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by revampeduser@kbin.social to c/showerthoughts@kbin.social

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[–] RickRussell_CA@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linux is still kicking as an independent project 30 years in, despite the success of monetizing it. The EEE strategy has been tried by many.

Granted, that's in no small part because Linus Torvalds keeps driving it. It will be interesting to see how he manages succession in the next few years.

[–] AnarchoGravyBoat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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They're trying again with Red Hat. Probably the second biggest implosion in the last few weeks.

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[–] RickRussell_CA@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Although, I would argue that what RH is doing is more "monetizing their investment" rather than a EEE strategy. Red Hat has done some wonderful things for the Linux ecosystem, and it absolutely sucks that they are trying to move their work under support contracts when it used to be freely available. But RedHat is not really essential for the Linux enterprise. You can buy robust support for several flavors of Debian, and of course SUSE is still out there kicking it old school.