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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Linux?s Remarkable Journey From One Dev's Hobby To 40 Million
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Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2025 22:31:03 -0000 (UTC)
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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.

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