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Originally posted by sophisticles View Post
In all fairness to Apple, Mac OS and BSD are miles apart in terms of functionality and Apple was making a shitload of money before they ever switched to OSX.
Using your argument then Sony owes BSD a 100 billion because Sony uses BSD as the OS for the PS3, PS4, and PS5.
Where does it end?
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Originally posted by sophisticles View Post
So companies that sell closed source software do not make billions?
Ubuntu is a poor example of "free Work" supports the "paid work" because Ubuntu is the OS of choice for NVIDIA's DGX servers and has been since they were first introduced.
Ubuntu has a strong presence in the Enterprise and data center markets, which is what's driving demand for their Pro services,
For vendors without a presence in those markets there is no demand for Pro versions and so they rely on donations, like Mint.
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Mostly-Non-Canonical -- https://canonical.com/projects
beside Debian an OpenStack, they're almost entirely Canonical projects.
no wonder why people keep asking what is Canonical contributing upstream then.
anyway, beside the already mentioned Gnome, nothing relevant remains, it seems.
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Originally posted by szymon_g View Postgod for them. we need a counterweight to RedhatPhantom circuit Sequence Reducer Dyslexia
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Originally posted by sophisticles View Post
So companies that sell closed source software do not make billions?
Ubuntu is a poor example of "free Work" supports the "paid work" because Ubuntu is the OS of choice for NVIDIA's DGX servers and has been since they were first introduced.
Ubuntu has a strong presence in the Enterprise and data center markets, which is what's driving demand for their Pro services,
For vendors without a presence in those markets there is no demand for Pro versions and so they rely on donations, like Mint.
There's literally only one company that makes money by selling a closed source generalist OS. Apple bundles it with their own hardware and is very adamant in blocking you from using it anywhere else.
Every other company that tried selling a generalist OS in the past 3 decades has failed spectacularly. I spent the first 10 years of my career working at IBM on OS/2, so I know something of that. Also every proprietary Unix has basically disappeared.
In the meanwhile, the open source + Pro services model started by RedHat has proliferated to Suse, Ubuntu, and many others.
So you have a closed source model that degenerated into a semi-monopoly, and an open-source model that expanded into multiple independent offerings. What is capitalism saying about that?
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