Linux Foundation now spends only 2% of their revenue on Linux

Kent Sharkey

Lunduke[^]:

Spending on A.I. is roughly 6 times that of Linux.

It's The Year of 2%

Linux kernel spending, that is

obermd

I took a quick look at their report. Not sure why they allow Red Hat to even be a member given that IBM/Red Hat has closed the source code to current and future versions of Red Hat Linux.

Richard Andrew x64

Kent Sharkey wrote:

Spending on A.I. is roughly 6 times that of Linux

Maybe AI costs 6 times as much.

The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

trønderen

Isn't Linux free? :-)

Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.

Richard Andrew x64

Free as in freedom, or free as in beer? ;)

The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

trønderen

The 'free speech' (or 'freedom') alternative is of minimal importance to the great majority of Linux users. The free beer is what counts. For the fifteen year old wannabe-coding-wizard it is obvious, but it goes for commercial software houses as well: Linux and Linux based tools is a way to reduce expenses, compared to the alternatives. The 'as in free speech' alternative is essentially for ideological speeches made by the top heads in the FOSS movement. If the common user refers to it at all, it is mostly because he is a little ashamed of making use of the efforts of others without paying anything back, so he needs an 'idealistic' argument to feel a little better about it. Usually, it is rather difficult to have any decent explanation of the 'ideology' that goes beyond 'I can modify the OS kernel if I want to'. Well, that would (hopefully) be a joke, but even for the the beer floating around the OS kernel and further out, those who actually even consider modifying that software are few and far between. I gladly admit that if I come to a party where the beer is free, I certainly drink it. Then I am talking about the real stuff.

Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.