[TUHS] If not Linux, then what?

A. P. Garcia a.phillip.garcia at gmail.com
Thu Aug 29 23:31:16 AEST 2019


On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 7:20 PM Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:

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> The GPL makes it harder to monetize Linux --- although, as we've seen,
> certainly not impossible --- and if you take a look at the most of the
> senior technical people at Linux, none of us have made off as well as,
> say, Bill Joy.  I'm still a working stiff, and don't have enough to
> retire.  (That's OK; I'm perfectly happy being part of the 99%.  :-)

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Case in point: https://jalopnik.com/the-founders-of-sun-microsystems-their-cars-and-their-5562572

I'm not making any judgments, good or bad. It is what it is.


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