Comments on: Linux Is The Next Platform, But Who Pays To Maintain It? https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/13/linux-is-the-next-platform-but-who-pays-to-maintain-it/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Fri, 21 Jul 2023 16:27:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/13/linux-is-the-next-platform-but-who-pays-to-maintain-it/#comment-211234 Sun, 16 Jul 2023 17:55:48 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142653#comment-211234 In reply to Slim Albert.

Or, a million thousandaires or a billion hundredaires…. Amen. Which literally means “so be it.”

]]> By: Grumpy https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/13/linux-is-the-next-platform-but-who-pays-to-maintain-it/#comment-211193 Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:50:26 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142653#comment-211193 Apparently nobody pays to maintain it if the sorry state of the major desktop environments is any indication. I’d pay real money to have print preview actually work in this stoopid debian distro.

]]> By: Slim Albert https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/13/linux-is-the-next-platform-but-who-pays-to-maintain-it/#comment-211154 Sat, 15 Jul 2023 05:12:44 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142653#comment-211154 This IBM RHEL challenge is such a harbinger of existential challenges facing humanity in short and long terms (IMHO)!

The sweet spot (if any) between feudalism (IBM?) and dictatorship of the proletariat (Red Hat?) remains a humongous question for humanity (today and at a great many prior times, it seems)… Can a “monarchy” be socialized? Can socialism be monetized? What is the sweet spot between vertical and horizontal organizations? Might each billionaire be swapped for a thousand millionaires (or not)?

I am quite thankful for these issues being raised, if unwittingly … and am hopeful that it won’t be only those with the most powerful air-conditioning who will make it … Can a sensible sweet-spot be identified between strength in assets and strength in numbers?

]]> By: WC Jones https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/13/linux-is-the-next-platform-but-who-pays-to-maintain-it/#comment-211148 Sat, 15 Jul 2023 01:14:34 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142653#comment-211148 Red Hat has twisted the knife that has been in its side since even before IBM purchased them. In my mind RHEL has been off track for years. Im not going to miss them … nit as much as I miss AIX 😛

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