Re: Linux?s Remarkable Journey From One Dev's Hobby To 40 Million Lines Of Code - And Counting

On 03/07/2025 02:36, John McCue wrote:

No mention of the 1 Billion USD investment IBM made in Linux
in 1999/2000, that allowed many people to get paid for their
work.  *BSD had and still has nothing close to this.

You can imagine
IBM:  "We need a free open OS to run on our tin and under our existing code"
Linus:  "well its gonna cost ya!"
Linux/s success is somewhat down to the fact that in the end, its easier these days to make money out of selling hardware or software subscriptions  than software.
So all the IOT bollox promotes small gadgets, probably ARM, running some adapted version of Linux, simply because its there...
The desktop/workstation  being the last bastion of windows and OS/X because it is the only platform that may be expected to run a diverse mix of specialist code.
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