Red Hat CEO: Google, Facebook owe it all to Linux, open source

“Had it not been for the no cost software, open licensing and
mass collaboration, all business models enabled by Linux and open
source, none of the top Web 2.0 companies — including the
cloud crowd — would have been able to lift off, scale and run
their businesses.

“Backrub.Stanford.edu, a little experiment begun in the mid 90s
that become Google, was written in Java and Python and on Linux.
More importantly, the technical innovation that came at such a low
pricetag is what changed the game forever, the Red Hat CEO
said.”

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