@MattF_NorCal @jamiemccarthy @paul It’s an accounting trick. By routing renewable to data centers they can make such claims but in 2021 they said that they would not be carbon neutral overall until 2030 and they have already pushed the date out. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/03/apple-powers-ahead-in-new-renewable-energy-solutions-with-over-110-suppliers/
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It is amazing how #Linux has gone from a completely niche thing for nerds that was readily dismissed by most corporate environments to something ubiquitous that most people interact with in some way on a daily basis.@vwbusguy @LordofCandy IBM alone spent over a billion developing Linux in addition to its effort to support an industry consortium; but the biggest corporate contribution was a consequence of embedded computers especially IOT and mobile devices. There are thousands of developers at hundreds of companies who produce the bulk of Linux work.
Linux was mostly hobby software until around 2005 but has been overwhelmingly commercially developed since.
But even that is an OSS success story.
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It is amazing how #Linux has gone from a completely niche thing for nerds that was readily dismissed by most corporate environments to something ubiquitous that most people interact with in some way on a daily basis.@LordofCandy @vwbusguy As someone who started developing OSes in the early 70s I have to say “always” is doing some heavy lifting. Unix didn’t really become infrastructure backbone until the mid 90s and most users had no need to be aware of it and still don’t.
Linux only exists because the AT&T/UCB suit lasted as long as it did and is only widespread because companies like IBM have spent billions developing it.
Sure it has a humble start but it’s a corporate success story.