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    4 days ago

    This means that it’s really hard to get rich building free / open source software.

    Red Hat, Canonical and others disagree.

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        3 days ago

        Oh i wasn’t even going into the “rip-off open source without giving anything back” territory, quite a lot of tech companies are guilty of that.

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      Red Hat doesn’t even exist anymore. They’re nothing more than an IBM subsidiary. Canonical is hardly rich. It may be influential in the free software world, but in terms of market cap, they’re half the size of “A2Z Cust2Mate Solutions Corp”. Have you ever heard of A2Z Cust2Mate Solutions Corp? I hadn’t until I started looking for software companies comparable to Canonical.