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Big Business backs Linux!

Postby viking60 » 10 Dec 2010, 16:59

BBbL

Sorry to all Socialists and Communists who chose Linux because it has the right social edge (according to Ballmer anyway). Linux is an OS and furthermore it is the best OS for most tasks out there:Image
Believe it or not, there is still this illusion that Linux and open-source software is written by counter-culture, C++ programming cultists living in their parent basements or huddled together in Cambridge, Mass. group-houses. Please. That is so twenty-years ago. Today, as the Linux Foundation reveals in its latest analysis, Linux Kernel Development: How Fast it is Going, Who is Doing It, What They are Doing, and Who is Sponsoring It (PDF Link), it’s big business that’s making Linux in 2010.


No, what’s important about how Linux and open-source software is created isn’t the side issues of politics or how its developers are perceived; it’s that its fundamental methodology produces better software. That’s why businesses invest in Linux’s development. Linux works. If it didn’t, big business wouldn’t bother with it.
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Re: Big Business backs Linux!

Postby dedanna1029 » 10 Dec 2010, 19:00

Oh, I so wish we had a "Like" or "Love" button for our forum like Facebook does... :)
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