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Re: Why do you guys use Linux?

From Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Why do you guys use Linux?
Date 2016-10-11 11:42 -0400
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On 2016-10-11 11:39 AM, Marek Novotny wrote:
> On 2016-10-11, Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 9:19:19 AM UTC-6, Marek Novotny
>> wrote:
>>> On 2016-10-11, Silver Slimer <> wrote:
>>> 
>>> // snip
>>> 
>>>> No company is hiring to produce Linux software other than
>>>> RedHat as far as I can tell since there is no money to be
>>>> made selling such stuff on the platform.
>>> 
>>> Incorrect. Any distribution that pays any employee is producing
>>> software for Linux. If you're hired by Canonical to work on
>>> Ubuntu, you're a paid Linux software developer.
>>> 
>>> Does intel pay their kernel developers? Of course they do.
>>> That's a paid Linux developer. And just look at the top 20
>>> contributors. Even Microsoft has paid Linux developers. They
>>> too contribute to the Linux kernel. What about the people
>>> working on bring the Linux environment to Microsoft windows?
>>> They are not Linux software developers? Of course they are.
>> 
>> The arstechnica.com site recently published an article entitled:
>> 
>> "Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux
>> contributors." "And Microsoft's days of major Linux contributions
>> have come to a halt."
>> 
>> I knew it was big and getting bigger but this line really stuck
>> out to me:
>> 
>> "Most Linux developers contribute to the kernel as part of their
>> employment."
>> 
>> 
>> <http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/google-and-sam
sung-soar-into-list-of-top-10-linux-contributors/>
>
>> 
> Yes, I had provided a link from the Linux Foundation some time
> back. I do that from time to time. The Linux Foundation publishes a
> lot of research in this particular area. Linux jobs are plentiful.
> There is so much Linux infrastructure. Just look at Docker. Look at
> Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Juju. Look at the volume of work going into
> OpenStack and related file systems. How about IBM's push into Linux
> with the LinuxOne Main Frame. It's frankly everywhere you look.
> Look at the job opportunities from Apple or Pixar. Both want Linux
> developers. Apple's push with Swift, which is open source and
> released for Linux. Who developed it? Apple. It didn't appear from
> thin air. Someone had to develop that for Linux. Microsoft
> releasing SQLserver for Linux. I could go on and on.

I'm still wondering when any of you will respond to the fact that
developers don't make money selling software _on_ the Linux platform.
Everyone is so adamant about misreading what I wrote.

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Why do you guys use Linux? ebinsageman@gmail.com - 2016-10-10 15:40 -0700
  Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 18:54 -0400
    Re: Why do you guys use Linux? ebinsageman@gmail.com - 2016-10-10 16:09 -0700
      Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-10 19:26 -0400
        Re: Why do you guys use Linux? ebinsageman@gmail.com - 2016-10-10 16:58 -0700
          Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-11 09:10 -0400
        Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-11 00:08 +0000
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          Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-11 09:13 -0400
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                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-11 10:27 -0400
              Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-11 10:24 -0400
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                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-11 15:22 +0000
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-11 11:28 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-11 11:23 -0400
            Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Jim Polaski <jpolaski@linuxmail.org> - 2016-10-11 13:44 +0000
            Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-11 11:19 -0400
              Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2016-10-11 08:29 -0700
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-11 11:39 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-11 11:42 -0400
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                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-10-11 16:58 -0400
                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-11 17:11 -0400
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                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 11:54 -0400
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                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 12:15 -0400
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                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 16:12 -0400
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                Re: Why do you guys use Linux? Silver Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-10-12 16:46 -0400
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          Re: Why do you guys use Linux? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-11 07:09 -0500
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