Big businesses are only in it for the cash. They see how happy the whole Linux community is and they view it as a way to gain attention and profit.
Open source is not just about trust either. It's about seeing what us as humans and hackers can accomplish. We have a passion for computers and we want to get the technology out as fast as possible and then worry about the bugs.
Obviously in this day and age we all worry about the money. But at least in the open source community the technology comes first. Big businesses can't understand this, and they never will. Their soul purpose in life is to generate more revenue than the next corp.
If open source becomes a main stream thing, big businesses will eventually panic because other businesses will come out with even more ideas that they claim originally belonged to them.
As unfortunate as it may be, the GPL and big businesses will never mix.
I think that Red hat's just going with the flow. As long as RedHat's staying with the GPL their not going against the community, and even if IBM only wants to boost profit the worst thing that could happen is it being a one time thing.
And if RedHat decides to be stupid by going all comercial then they'll fail because they won't have the communities trust anymore.
The only reason that crap companies like microsoft succeed, is because the average Joe Shmoe doesn't know any better, so they confide in the "leading brand".
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It's times like this when I'm sure glad that I'm Canadian.
Oops, GST, I forgot.
Just can't see to many mac users jump at the chance to try a real OS.
Big businesses are only in it for the cash. They see how happy the whole Linux community is and they view it as a way to gain attention and profit.
Open source is not just about trust either. It's about seeing what us as humans and hackers can accomplish. We have a passion for computers and we want to get the technology out as fast as possible and then worry about the bugs.
Obviously in this day and age we all worry about the money. But at least in the open source community the technology comes first. Big businesses can't understand this, and they never will. Their soul purpose in life is to generate more revenue than the next corp.
If open source becomes a main stream thing, big businesses will eventually panic because other businesses will come out with even more ideas that they claim originally belonged to them.
As unfortunate as it may be, the GPL and big businesses will never mix.
I think that Red hat's just going with the flow. As long as RedHat's staying with the GPL their not going against the community, and even if IBM only wants to boost profit the worst thing that could happen is it being a one time thing.
And if RedHat decides to be stupid by going all comercial then they'll fail because they won't have the communities trust anymore.
The only reason that crap companies like microsoft succeed, is because the average Joe Shmoe doesn't know any better, so they confide in the "leading brand".