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Sterling Ball, whose company is the world's leading maker of premium guitar strings, explains why he made the move to open source and why he's never looked back since.

Sterling Ball, whose company is the world’s leading maker of premium guitar strings, explains why he made the move to open source and why he’s never looked back since.*

*editorial: Spite!

  • ClownStatue@piefed.socialEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Article says they’re using Red Hat, so my guess is they’re paying for updates, and probably a support contract. While it’s not exactly the best way to contribute (giving money to IBM), it’s not nothing. Plus IBM does contribute to open source projects beyond RHEL.

    • quill7513@anarchist.nexusOPEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      i do have to wonder if 23 years later they’re still with RedHat especially since IBM renegotiated many of the contracts when they bought redhat. i’m almost curious enough to email Ernie Ball with the full expectation that they email back “we ain’t telling you shit about our network topology”

      EDIT: Curiosity got the better of me and I sent an email asking

      edit2: they emailed back with an extremely reasonable “we ain’t telling you shit about our network topology”