Sujet : Re: Why are VSI so focused on Sweden ?
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.vmsDate : 18. Mar 2025, 04:25:52
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 21:57:44 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
But that is like a law of nature due to the resources thrown into Linux
development by many big and small companies compared to the resources
available to VSI.
It wasn’t always that way.
In the early 1990s, DEC was still a big company. Linux was, in Torvalds’
own words, “just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like GNU”. And GNU
itself was a pipsqueak compared to a proprietary company like DEC or
Microsoft.