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Re:Bringing people back to the open web by kuschku on Monday April 23, 2018 @01:01PM (#16905249)
With tenthousands of corporate developers from RedHat, Google, IBM?

Do you seriously think Torvalds, Stallmann and a few dozen enthusiasts could maintain all of the Linux ecosystem?

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Re:Bringing people back to the open web by bitwize on Monday April 23, 2018 @02:07PM (#16905872)
Red Hat and Google got into their advantageous positions by building their businesses on top of Linux in the first place, back when people were saying it would never compete with Microsoft or big-iron Unix.
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