IBM's Bet on Linux: The Pattern That Repeats

💙 Thanks for watching http://thehambergerreport.com 💙 In December two thousand, IBM committed one billion US dollars to Linux and changed who was allowed to say yes. Every major shift in computing followed the same pattern: a pirate outpost, a community, a standard, and then a monopoly. This episode covers the Red Hat IPO, IBM's billion-dollar Linux commitment, the RHEL dual-track model that held for twenty-seven years, and the discovery-cost shift that NHS England's SDLC-eight directive is struggling to address: how it happened, why it mattered, and what the open source story tells us about where AI is heading. Part of Linux Wednesday — The Hamberger Report's weekly history of Linux and open source: from Linus Torvalds' first kernel post to the AI era, told in full. 📌 CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 01:04 Introduction 01:06 STICK TO YOUR GUNS 02:26 RED HAT IPO 1999 03:47 IBM COMMITS ONE BILLION 2000 05:08 THE RHEL TEMPLATE 2002 06:24 THE ECONOMICS THAT HELD 07:38 SDLC-8 CHANGES THE QUESTION 09:03 SAME CONVERSATION 27 YEARS 10:29 Wrap-up 🔗 CONNECT 🌐 The Hamberger Report: https://thehambergerreport.com 📖 Space Mafia: https://hamberger.short.gy/spacemafia 📖 Free As In Theft: https://hamberger.short.gy/freeasintheft 💼   / andyhamberger   #HambergerReport #AIGovernance