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617 points EvgeniyZh | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 21:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.287s | source
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santiagobasulto ◴[03 Apr 25 22:46 UTC] No.43576378[source]▶
Microsoft (and maybe even Bill Gates personally) generated a strong "dislike" sentiment to the hacker community. But we can't deny that he and Paul Allen were pure breed hackers and helped a lot the development of technology. Of course, we all prefer OSS and we'd pick Linus (or insert OSS dev name here) 100 times over one of the "evil capitalists"/s, but nevertheless they have to be recognized.
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gjsman-1000[dead post] ◴[03 Apr 25 23:25 UTC] No.43576677[source]▶
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quickslowdown ◴[04 Apr 25 00:48 UTC] No.43577196[source]▶
This is wrong, Linux had plenty of momentum before RedHat specifically was purchased by IBM.

I'm sure that helped its momentum in the corporate space, where it was already very present, but the whole family of Linux was very well established in servers, firewalls (more BSD than Linux here), mobile devices, embedded hardware, etc

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1. skissane ◴[04 Apr 25 01:51 UTC] No.43577541[source]▶
> This is wrong, Linux had plenty of momentum before RedHat specifically was purchased by IBM.

I’m not defending their overall argument, but I don’t think they are talking about the 2018 Red Hat acquisition, rather IBM’s 2000 announcement they were investing a billion dollars in Linux: https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/ibm-to-spend-1-billi...

IBM has been a big contributor to Linux long before buying Red Hat