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maybe you should go back and see what IBM (Big Corpo) is doing to open source of Red Hat then come back and tell me how Valuable Big Corpo is to Open Source.
I mean, absolutely, big corpo posses dangers to open source at certain degree but then again plenty of code in linux kernel are written by big corpos (AMD/NVIDIA/Intel) and large open source foundation like gnome or KDE are sponsored by them.
I am not saying against/for big corpo but thatâs just how I look at it.
Yes plenty are helping with the linux Kernel and IBM is one of them. At the same time they are putting thier code behind a subscription. Is this the future you want? Itâs one thing for a company to contribute its another when a company owns the project.
Nope.
Not the future I want. Nor I talk about the ownership of a project. I am talking about something more symbiotic relationship.
Big corpo helps kernel development, big corpo using and funding open source products etc.
Outside NixOS, we really REALLY need to shed some light on Nix as an alternative to flatpaks, standalone binaries/packages, appimages and snaps.
Nix is amazing, immune to dependency-hell and doesnât have runtime bloat of flatpaks. It also has a gigantic package repository and is actually good for CLI and TUI apps and the software is added to the system PATH variable instead of having to run nix to run it (looking at you, flatpak)
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Just have to keep in mind that at the end of the day big corpo is concerned with the bottom dollar.