From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 10/15/2025 7:01 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:33:20 -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:   
   >> I believe Arne's point was the fairly obvious one that a retail   
   >> chain or a hospital chain does not need to and cannot afford to   
   >> maintain, for example, their own operating system.   
   >   
   > Do you think that is hard to do?   
      
   Clone an existing distro and change name and logo: easy.   
      
   Hire a couple of "experts" that in case of a problem   
   can post on the internet and hope somebody else can   
   come up with a fix and then apply the fix: easy.   
      
   Hire a couple of "experts" that know C and   
   in case of a problem plan to start read code   
   and hope they will be able to find a solution: easy.   
      
   Hire enough experts to have people that know   
   the code base of every critical part: Linux   
   kernel, glibc etc. probably 50-100 million   
   lines of code: bloody expensive. We are talking   
   hundreds engineers - and not just any engineers   
   but top engineers.   
      
   Redhat, Canonical, SUSE etc. have them.   
      
   Amazon, Microsoft, Google etc. have them.   
      
   The vast majority of companies don't have them.   
      
   Arne   
      
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