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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 11:27 AM EDT |
Perhaps it's the social side-effects of his work, the legitimation and
democratization of distributed large project development, that was more
interesting. Not that there isn't value in making an OS and network stack
freely available and using the GPL to accrete support for almost every SoC out
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| Authored by: jvillain on Tuesday, April 24 2012 @ 02:55 PM EDT |
I was running Linux based load balancers before you could buy them from Cisco or
Foundry. I had Linux based corporate firewalls back when a similar device from
Cisco was 5 figures.
How many home firewalls run on Linux how many smart phones run Linux. When you
are thinking Linux servers think about more than the LAMP stack. Mail servers,
ftp servers, DNS servers, IP phone systems etc, etc.
By bringing the cost down it made it economical to do a lot of types of
business. There would be no Google or face book for example if they had to pay
Microsoft or Sun licensing fees for all those servers. That wasn't all Linus for
sure. But he laid the second or third brick upon which much else was built. I
sat second or third as RMS for example was necessary before Linux could release
his baby under the GPL [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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