Most servers around the world run Linux. The same goes for almost all supercomputers. That’s astonishing in a capitalist world where absolutely everything is commodified. Why can’t these big tech companies manage to sell their own software to server operators or supercomputers? Why is an open, free project that is free for users so superior here?

  • breezeblock@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Those companies have incentives to maximize profit, not maximize efficiency. In particular Microsoft has relentlessly given developers the opposite of what they want because its more profitable to some decision maker within Microsoft. Its enshitification.