• Ineocla@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It’s not just Microsoft tho. Redhat, oracle, facebook, Google, intel, AMD, they all contribute to linux. Removing their contribution would effectively make the kernel unusable

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      1 year ago

      Isn’t taking corporate money and extracting it into a public good a positive?

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          1 year ago

          Everyone is getting free stuff; that’s the point. If you want companies to not use free stuff to make money then either linux is worse, or companies need to po away.

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      So what’s the problem with that? We get contribution for free to make newer hardware working, they improve already existing stuff, they solve bugs and everyone take advantage from that.

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      Hardware manufactures (Intel, AMD, etc) SHOULD be contributing to Linux. How could they EEE if they aren’t directly competing? The better compatibility they have with Linux, the more server CPUs they can sell. That’s their motivation, and it’s aligned with the OSS community.