Comment by jacques_chester

7 years ago

> Mostly because in the OS market there is enough competition that didn't exist back in the 1990's when RedHat was founded around the Linux kernel.

I'd disagree; the 90s had a lot more OS diversity in the for-profit sector than we see today.

Agreed. There has been a massive amount of tech consolidation happening lately. I assume as a result of all that overseas cash that got repatriated with the tax changes.