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0 pointsshock5y ago0 comments

I present to you the Debian Foundation as a counter example. I posit they are surviving just fine without a contract with Google.

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staktrace5y ago· 2 in thread

The Debian Foundation also doesn't have to compete against Google on a product that costs millions of dollars to build and maintain, and that Google throws billions at in marketing.

regularfry5y ago

Interesting comparison: they do compete against Red Hat, and thus IBM, who I could well believe do spend billions on marketing in the same space.

shockOP5y ago

At various levels it has to compete against Redhat/IBM, Microsoft and other Dekstop and Server OS vendors.

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