Re: Linux Journal Ceases Publication
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
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| Organization | Geek Central |
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On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 08:44:53 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
> 'The team said on Wednesday that all staff members had been laid off
> and the company was left with no operating funds to continue in any
> capacity. It remains committed to keeping the website afloat for
> another few weeks.'
From another report
<https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/08/linux_journal_closes_again_editor_says_os_buried_under_proprietary_software/>:
Linux is more successful than ever, and even Microsoft is adopting
it to some extent, making a Linux VM an integral part of Windows
10 ... That sounds like a big win for FOSS ... but [Linux
Journal editor Kyle] Rankin said this is not really the case.
The golden age of FOSS, Rankin argued, was around 2007 when Linux
was mainstream in corporate IT and developers worked with it
directly. Today, he says:
Linux and FOSS are more hidden than ever. So many of those FOSS
projects on GitHub ultimately are used as building blocks for
proprietary software. So many companies that seem to champion
FOSS by helping upstream projects they rely on also choose to
keep the projects they write themselves proprietary. Although
Linux dominates the cloud, more and more developers and system
administrators who use the cloud do so via proprietary APIs and
proprietary services.
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