If the Linux Foundation was a software company, it'd be the biggest in the world The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has returned to Shanghai for the city's first Kubecon since the pandemic. During a keynote that switched languages several times, demonstrating the challenges faced by both AI and human translators in keeping up, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, threw out several …
If the Linux Foundation was a company, it wouldn't even exist, because nobody would buy their "product", and it wouldn't be used anywhere. Well, at least not in more places than other obscure commercial OSes, like QNX.
The only reason Linux is so popular is because it's free, not because it's technically superior. Actually, it was already obsolete by the time it was created, and it has only gotten worse ever since.
(Of course Linux fanbois will downvote this, because the truth is hard to swallow.)
... because it's done *by* IT people *FOR* IT people.
Just as the mozzarella maker keeps the best pieces for himself.
No other OS has chroot, namespaces, control groups, layered file systems.
All these features were added gradually so that nerds could run isolated environments on the same hardware, thereby saving on costs.
For testing (chroot), for web hosting (namespaces), for IaaS (control groups) etc.
Docker and Kubernetes could *never* have been born on any other commercial OS whose commercial viability relies on selling zillions of copies of itself.
And surely not on Windows "server".
So FREE as in "free beer" is good for the planet and for mankind.
I've been mocking ignoramuses like you for decades.
The truth is not hard to swallow, only the parroted repetition of nonsense like that. I doubt you understand the meaning of the word "free" in context, either.
You're right, nobody would "buy" the product because they don't have to. If they pay for something, it will be commercial support or sponsorship of a project.
@FF22
I am sure if the world's stock exanges could find something more efficient they would kick out Linux right away.
And I am sure you know that all top 500 supercomputers run Linux since several years ago.
And I am fully convinced that if Google & co could find something more efficient for their millions of processors running Linux they would also swith.
You live in the past with opinions from the past.
Linux is Unix done well (and constaltly) and by a large amount of competent people. More people than any company alone could employ.
Perhaps it's surprising but I have had a look at it from the very beginning and I am not all that surprised, perhaps.
Since computers are so cheap and software solutions have become so mature, companies are resorting to subscriptions and obsolescence schemes to churn software and maintain revenue. PCs used to cost big money for much less horsepower than you can get in a $60 Raspberry Pi 5 today, and not all that long ago. People like me pay pittances for cast-off hardware from recyclers and run abandonware for $nothing. I remember being offended how outrageous expensive PS3 was, now people scrap them as junk and the entire game library is freely downloadable. Being a natural scrounge & cheapskate, I don’t pay ‘nuthin for anything !
They would have collapsed through in-fighting long ago and the level of trust would be much lower.
Also, being a commercial company, they would also not have any trust from the Open Source community and would have commercial pressures to get stuff out quickly, so certain features probably wouldn't exist.
The number of developers contributing to LF projects multiplied by the average developer salary only makes sense if they are all spending 100% of their time contributing to those projects - which seems highly unlikely.
I also wonder if one individual contributing to multiple projects is being counted multiple times.
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