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Open source can't win: Complacency has its price

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 17, 2023

Companies are pulling the rug out from under the communities that helped them gain popularity

Red Hat, famously, had a quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi on the walls of its offices about the fight to drive Linux and open source adoption. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." While inspirational, it's a little misleading.

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