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Mar 16, 2021 at 04:59
2014 article on how hard it is to make money from OSS, and how Red Hat is an outlier. Perhaps OSS has made software cheaper overall?
Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source | TechCrunch
Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source | TechCrunch
Open source software powers the world’s technology. In the past decade, there has been an inexorable adoption of open source in most aspects of computing. Without open source, Facebook, Google, Amazon, and nearly every other modern technology company would not exist. Thanks to an amazing community of innovative, top-notch programmers, open source has become the foundation of cloud computing, software-as-a-service, next generation databases, mobile devices, the consumer internet, and even Bitcoin.

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When people talk about federated systems, they frequently compare with email. Email has been successfully distributed, but I think it's an outlier. It's rare, especially today, for popular tech to be distributed with multiple implementations.