News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:WWDC21 by chrisseaton on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @04:23PM (#27295609)
Sorry your comment doesn't really make sense to me.

Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc, are all examples of massive successful commercial applications running on Linux.

The original question was 'How can you make money on linux?'

The answer is these companies and more make billions, and the employees make hundreds of thousands, all writing applications on Linux. Most developers I know make money writing applications on Linux.

Re:WWDC21 by CyberDildonics on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @05:53PM (#27296581)
You originally said "most commercial software runs on linux" and when people told you that is a bold and possibly ridiculous thing to say, your response is 'these big websites make a lot of money and the people I know work on linux'.

Do you think that might not be indicative of the big picture? If you lived on the equator would you say "no one really needs a thick warm coat, no one I know has one" ?

I'm fascinated that you don't want to look beyond local anecdotes for real systemic information.

Re:WWDC21 by chrisseaton on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @06:19PM (#27296817)
Out of the top 25 websites in the world, only 2 aren’t using Linux.

96.3% of the world’s top 1 million servers run on Linux.

90% of all cloud infrastructure operates on Linux.

https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/linux-statistics/

Even at Microsoft they run most stuff on Linux.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-developer-reveals-li...

72% of phones are running Linux.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

Look at any tech jobs site. How many jobs are for writing Microsoft Windows or macOS desktop or iOS phone software compared to for writing Linux applications? A tiny tiny proportion.

Re:WWDC21 by CyberDildonics on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @09:50PM (#27298444)
I was wondering when android would become "running on linux"
Re:WWDC21 by CyberDildonics on Thursday May 27, 2021 @12:10PM (#27304702)
To be clear, if you were in a meeting at work and your boss asked you how to make money programming for linux, you would say to write Android apps, and you think that no one would roll their eyes from you purposely ignoring the point of the question to say something that is pragmatically nonsense and only makes sense in an extremely warped redefinition of a question?