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Proud Dad/Grandad;former Exec. & Distinguished Engineer at IBM/DELL. Sometime triathlete, sports management, event organizer. Currently a stay at home Dad...

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    1. Gordon Haff‏ @ghaff Aug 16
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      I somewhat understand the pining for a world where open source doesn’t involve lots of corporate money, foundations, and other industry organizations. That world would also be one where open source would be far less central and important than this one.

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    2. Charles King‏ @PundITInc Aug 16
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      Agree. Without the corporate and other commercial investments that projects received, it seems likely that open source's influence would be a small fraction of what it is today. I also expect that the tech industry would be far more consolidated and monolithic than it already is.

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    3. Gordon Haff‏ @ghaff Aug 16
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      There’s plenty to criticize about the current tech world but I’d argue that extrapolating the mid-90s proprietary world to today gives you something both less advanced and more locked-in overall.

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    4. Charles King‏ @PundITInc Aug 16
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      Indeed. Linux led the way on that, along with major assists from Intel and AMD, as well as VMware and other x86 virtualization companies. Absent that, the tech world would be far more homogenous and far less interesting than it is today.

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    5. Mark Cathcart‏ @cathcam Aug 16
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      To be fair, almost no good programmer wants to spend their time and brief fame fixing and updating someone's else's old code... Eventually everyone moves on and even die. Who will maintain critical infrastructure code then? Corporates step in and pay...

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    6. Mark Cathcart‏ @cathcam Aug 16
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      Otherwise you have to hope that a youngster steps in, writes code other, makes new mistakes and doesn't repeat one's. Not that effective.

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      Mark Cathcart‏ @cathcam Aug 16
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      Which is exactly why it made sense to fund the @linuxfoundation and create the Core Infrastructure Initiative post the heartbleed.

      9:03 AM - 16 Aug 2019
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