• Tak@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Nobody has a problem with Red Hat keeping the lights on and people paid. IBM just wants to increase profit margins because capitalism is a flawed system about abusing whatever you can for personal gain.

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      2 years ago

      Nobody has a problem with Red Hat keeping the lights on and people paid

      Red Hat was doing way more than that. They generate a revenue of about 1.5 billion dollars per year, and a net income of half a billion.

      IBM just wants to increase profit margins because capitalism is a flawed system about abusing whatever you can for personal gain.

      Yep, that’s the capitalist logic: every drop of blood that you haven’t squeezed out of people but that you could have, is a loss. Taking ethics and the greater good into consideration is for losers.

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      Just the good old stock market gently asking for infinite growth. You can´t just be profitable these days, shareholders prefer to kill a profitable business that does not grow constantly.