| ▲ | quickslowdown a day ago | |
This is wrong, Linux had plenty of momentum before RedHat specifically was purchased by IBM. I'm sure that helped its momentum in the corporate space, where it was already very present, but the whole family of Linux was very well established in servers, firewalls (more BSD than Linux here), mobile devices, embedded hardware, etc | ||
| ▲ | skissane a day ago | parent [-] | |
> This is wrong, Linux had plenty of momentum before RedHat specifically was purchased by IBM. I’m not defending their overall argument, but I don’t think they are talking about the 2018 Red Hat acquisition, rather IBM’s 2000 announcement they were investing a billion dollars in Linux: https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/ibm-to-spend-1-billi... IBM has been a big contributor to Linux long before buying Red Hat | ||