Linux is like Democracy.
There are plenty of people in it, sometimes it can be a hot messbut when it works and handled by professionals it is the best thing there is.
The rest are dictatorships.
You get what they give, you do what they allow, you can change what they decide, and you pay for everything you do.
I dunno I don’t feel like this applies to just Windows or Mac when you consider Red Hat’s acquisition. Windows is popular because of the powerful tools it provides to manage businesses and it goes it well.
Shit on Microsoft all you want but the systems work well for businesses. I would charge others too if my product was popular and did what others needed it to do.
Linux isn’t immune to be used to being made to make money and I really think the Linux community forgets that money talks. Get it in enough businesses and their is potential for someone to charge.
Linux is used to make money, no doubt, as a professional tool or platform, utilizing a lot of good will out of the open source coder community.
Microsoft’s suite of tools are vendor locked to an ecosystem, just like Redhat is doing.
Also, short of their cloud service and office suite, I see only their gaming sphere of influence. Both the cloud and the office suite are replaceable, but both are managed in vendor lockin and monopolistic manners.
I have and will resent both Microsoft and RedHat.
I do not resent SUSE, in spite of them being all business, because they are much less tyrannical.
They create their own versions of cloud stack projects, SAP and other software while customizing a Linux distribution to deliver said tools.
I’m sure if I’ll dig deep down, I’ll be able to find shenanigans, but I haven’t heard much about them in the media so I consider them decent. Might be wrong, though.
The more I learn, the bigger the abyss becomes. I will never master Linux. I will, at best, learn some of the currents and how to sail them safely.
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I hate how much I love Linux
I see it more like this:
Linux is like Democracy. There are plenty of people in it, sometimes it can be a hot messbut when it works and handled by professionals it is the best thing there is.
The rest are dictatorships. You get what they give, you do what they allow, you can change what they decide, and you pay for everything you do.
Agreed
“And you pay for everything you do.”
I dunno I don’t feel like this applies to just Windows or Mac when you consider Red Hat’s acquisition. Windows is popular because of the powerful tools it provides to manage businesses and it goes it well.
Shit on Microsoft all you want but the systems work well for businesses. I would charge others too if my product was popular and did what others needed it to do.
Linux isn’t immune to be used to being made to make money and I really think the Linux community forgets that money talks. Get it in enough businesses and their is potential for someone to charge.
Linux is used to make money, no doubt, as a professional tool or platform, utilizing a lot of good will out of the open source coder community.
Microsoft’s suite of tools are vendor locked to an ecosystem, just like Redhat is doing. Also, short of their cloud service and office suite, I see only their gaming sphere of influence. Both the cloud and the office suite are replaceable, but both are managed in vendor lockin and monopolistic manners.
I have and will resent both Microsoft and RedHat.
I do not resent SUSE, in spite of them being all business, because they are much less tyrannical. They create their own versions of cloud stack projects, SAP and other software while customizing a Linux distribution to deliver said tools.
I’m sure if I’ll dig deep down, I’ll be able to find shenanigans, but I haven’t heard much about them in the media so I consider them decent. Might be wrong, though.