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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux?s Remarkable Journey From One Dev's Hobby To 40 Million Lines Of Code - And Counting Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2025 22:31:03 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: <10470b7$d897$1@dont-email.me> References: <1044ib9$3pv7t$1@dont-email.me> <1044mr3$ccjo$1@dont-email.me> <1045jos$3k4l$4@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:31:03 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2f0719ea025844aecc910a0c01dbd4e4"; logging-data="434471"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/UkI/12bdFGScO5JxJm/pq" User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Cancel-Lock: sha1:61FtcsVjMOqsN43Ic8e3GX2ohhY= On Thu, 3 Jul 2025 10:50:20 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > Linux/s success is somewhat down to the fact that in the end, its > easier these days to make money out of selling hardware or software > subscriptions than software. Services. The scarcity is not the software, but in the human skills needed to get the most out of it. That’s what’s valuable and saleable. > The desktop/workstation being the last bastion of windows and OS/X > because it is the only platform that may be expected to run a > diverse mix of specialist code. Oddly enough, “specialist” code mainly runs on Linux these days. <https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidias-newest-top-tier-ai-supercomputers-deployed-for-the-first-time-grace-blackwell-ultra-superchip-systems-deployed-at-coreweave>