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Does anyone know of a redhat style model but not for enterprise? Like small businesses and individuals.
Just started working at Red Hat about a month ago. Absolutely love working for this company! Especially that most engineers use GNU/Linux of some sort. Great to see this!
"Just started working at Red Hat about a month ago." I have something I'd like to ask you ... Two years ago, at the RSA convention, I ran into a redhat employee and was chatting about (unix) and I mentioned that I was the founder of rsync.net with the expectation that he knew exactly who we were and what we did. He had no idea and had never heard of us . I felt like I had uncovered an enormous flaw in my outreach and…
I could see many people never hearing of rsync.net though, until you have the need you usually don't know about stuff. Well, unless you are on HN, but even then I gloss over a lot of stuff that currently isn't in my "need" bucket.
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Consulting is not a great business in a lot of ways, and 1 million is not at all easy unless you're 1) someplace where that's not a lot of money, or 2) you're famous. I would heartily suggest avoiding it, as it's also not scalable even at a small size. Look at the kind of stuff the 'micropreneur' guys do, like patio11's bingo thing. That was small (I agree with you there) but still something that once running, kept m…
you do it until you get the money, then do what you want. maybe you're not getting what i'm saying because it involves investing (aka betting) your own money into something.
Creating a product - even a small scale one - is much more of an investment (and a risk), because while you're building it, it earns nothing. The payoff is that it can make money while you're asleep.
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There is no billion dollar open source company outside of Redhat, if a billion dollars in revenue is your benchmark. On pure success financially from an OSS company, they truly are unrivaled. Otherwise, there are thousands of small open source companies that do quite well for themselves. If you look at pure profit however, Redhat does abysmally compared to say Microsoft or Apple, or any traditional proprietary softwa…
What about Canonical?
Where is the redhat ecosystem trending with regard to CoW filesystems ? Are people regularly using ZFS-on-linux with redhat ? Or is there an officially sanctioned CoW choice from redhat ? Or is that not on the radar at all right now ?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Came in 4.9 and 4.8 (the commit provides the building block). And I also think Dave Chinner (works at RH) put a lot of effort into it? (but I'm not 100% sure)
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There is no billion dollar open source company outside of Redhat, if a billion dollars in revenue is your benchmark. On pure success financially from an OSS company, they truly are unrivaled. Otherwise, there are thousands of small open source companies that do quite well for themselves. If you look at pure profit however, Redhat does abysmally compared to say Microsoft or Apple, or any traditional proprietary softwa…
What about Canonical?
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"I’m writing to let you know that we will end our investment in Unity8, the phone and convergence shell. We will shift our default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS." I checked the date of the post really carefully as well. That is certainly a change of direction.
I guess unity was the only thing driving Mir then? Is dropping one the same as dropping both? Seems like good news to me, having a significant player like canonical contributing to the community instead of fragmenting without much benefit can't be bad can it? I don't use it on the desktop anyway, but I hope that moves in this direction are rewarded by the community.
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Isn't Apache technically free as well?
Apache is a foundation however, not really a "business" per-se.