Without the „corpos“ spending money on developing the Linux ecosystem, we wouldn’t be where we are today. Red Hat (systemd), Oracle, IBM made a lot possible. Apple took KHTML and turned it into WebKit, the browser engine bundled with GTK and Qt.
Google managed to capture Linux with Chromebooks and Android phones. However their spending benefited others as well.
Single maintainers can’t do much to stop a determined corporation with money from forking a component or writing a replacement. I remember how Debian maintainers spent immense amounts of time and energy into fighting about adoption of systemd to replace sysv init.
Unfortunately, that’s where I see it heading. And for all the good intentions out there, as soon as the corpos get involved, it goes to shit.
I think we’re a few principled maintainers away from standard enshittification of the Linux Foundation.
Without the „corpos“ spending money on developing the Linux ecosystem, we wouldn’t be where we are today. Red Hat (systemd), Oracle, IBM made a lot possible. Apple took KHTML and turned it into WebKit, the browser engine bundled with GTK and Qt.
Google managed to capture Linux with Chromebooks and Android phones. However their spending benefited others as well.
Single maintainers can’t do much to stop a determined corporation with money from forking a component or writing a replacement. I remember how Debian maintainers spent immense amounts of time and energy into fighting about adoption of systemd to replace sysv init.