I've also donated $1,000 to Debian today, to thank them for providing me with a free, consistent OS to use to test my code and run it in production #OSSThanks
Linux and the Free Software movement are built on the foundation of individuals contributing their work for the enjoyment of everyone, without restriction.
Celebrate the hackers and hobbyists who have enabled even massive corporations to generate billions in wealth.
@geerlingguy I think that's oversimplifying things a bit. Those individuals need to eat, and the days of pure hobbyist coders are long gone. RH and intel and IBM and others pay quite a few people to contribute code to the OSS world.
And in the end they're companies that need to make money. How they go about that is another story...
Companies need to convince customers to give them money, and if they do a good job of that, they profit.
Building a business on top of open source code, then playing games with licensing due to reported shenanigans from supposedly just one downstream competitor 1/10000th your size... that's not something a company needs to do.
No matter how much good they've done, it is for naught if they decide to discard it in the name of profit.
@geerlingguy@cm If a company creates a product that uses open source and makes money and they don't adhere to the license then thry are breaking the law. They should adhere to the license or write all their own software. They benefit from open source and the idea os to give back. If they aren't going to givr back they can do all the hard work.
@geerlingguy #redhatenterpriselinux has been very profitable even with the existence of downstream projects. The argument that they arent making enough money to cover salary for engineers is bullshit
Edit: added screenshots of the #redhat 2014 earnings report as well as #ibm 2022 report stating tech offerings based on redhat are raking in ~$1billion
@admin that way anyone can do anything with it, as long as they attribute the original work to me, and don't hoard it (they have to also share their derivative).
@geerlingguy Thanks for that, but I decided to rather buy the book instead to support the creator.
I’ve taught myself #Ansible from the docs to manage a small lab of 6 Linux machines as well as my #RaspberryPi s, but I'm hoping to learn sone additional tricks and best practices from the book.
@geerlingguy thanks for the transparency and the book. I just bought it on leanpub.com and really appreciate the ongoing updates model (especially for a book about active software)!
@geerlingguy I bought it a few weeks ago despite already owning "Practical Ansible 2" from Packt Publishing. Your video series really got me started in ansible, buying your book on leanpub was my way of giving back. And whaddaya know: 10 days after buying it there was an update. If thats not great value I don't know what is. Thanks Jeff!
@geerlingguy This type of transparency with both metrics and finances is most refreshing. I really do appreciate you for doing this. If more content creators do this, people can properly gauge their barrier to entry, and of course, success doesn't come in a year or two.. Grind!! Thank you!
@train I've been on YouTube since 2006, and been writing the book since 2013, it's definitely a grind, and it's only really paid off over the last few years!
Luck is involved too, I would be remiss to say that (and that's why I still had a full time W2 job until 2021). But luck favors the prepared.
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