{"text":"@landley @kkarhan @ghul @jti42 @pkal There was a lot more going on here and a lot of people have no idea quite how directly involved some very large banks were in the whole process. The idea that Red Hat, SuSE etc created enterprise products and the big banks jumped on it is sort of backwards. The banks needed a solution to the collapse of expensive proprietary Unix, and they knew it wasn't going to be Windows. They also wanted at least two competing suppliers.","truncated":false,"created_at":"Mon Dec 29 22:53:25 +0900 2025","in_reply_to_status_id":"11810086","uri":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/etchedpixels\/statuses\/115798969588295067","source":"ActivityPub","source_link":null,"id":11810087,"in_reply_to_user_id":32476,"in_reply_to_screen_name":"landley","geo":null,"user":{"id":100857,"name":"The Penguin of Evil","screen_name":"etchedpixels","location":null,"description":"Retired Linux hacker, gamer, retrocomputing, model trainsESO: EtchedPixels &amp; PenguinOfEvil (Wombles, Greymanes, Chill Mode)","profile_image_url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/100857-48-20230222080833.webp","profile_image_url_https":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/100857-48-20230222080833.webp","profile_image_url_profile_size":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/100857-96-20230222080833.webp","profile_image_url_original":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/100857-original-tmp20230222080833.webp","groups_count":0,"linkcolor":false,"backgroundcolor":false,"url":null,"protected":false,"followers_count":0,"friends_count":0,"created_at":"Wed Feb 22 17:08:33 +0900 2023","utc_offset":"0","time_zone":"UTC","statuses_count":118,"following":false,"statusnet_blocking":false,"notifications":false,"statusnet_profile_url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@etchedpixels","cover_photo":false,"background_image":false,"profile_link_color":false,"profile_background_color":false,"profile_banner_url":false,"is_local":false,"is_silenced":false,"rights":{"delete_user":false,"delete_others_notice":false,"silence":false,"sandbox":false},"is_sandboxed":false,"favourites_count":0},"statusnet_html":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mstdn.jp\/@landley\" class=\"u-url mention\">@landley<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/infosec.space\/@kkarhan\" class=\"u-url mention\">@kkarhan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdculture.de\/@ghul\" class=\"u-url mention\">@ghul<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/@jti42\" class=\"u-url mention\">@jti42<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/social.sdfeu.org\/@pkal\" class=\"u-url mention\">@pkal<\/a> There was a lot more going on here and a lot of people have no idea quite how directly involved some very large banks were in the whole process. The idea that Red Hat, SuSE etc created enterprise products and the big banks jumped on it is sort of backwards. The banks needed a solution to the collapse of expensive proprietary Unix, and they knew it wasn't going to be Windows. They also wanted at least two competing suppliers.<\/p>","statusnet_conversation_id":6001862,"statusnet_in_groups":false,"external_url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/11810087","in_reply_to_profileurl":"https:\/\/mstdn.jp\/@landley","in_reply_to_ostatus_uri":"https:\/\/mstdn.jp\/users\/landley","attentions":[{"id":32476,"screen_name":"landley","fullname":"Rob Landley","profileurl":"https:\/\/mstdn.jp\/@landley","ostatus_uri":"https:\/\/mstdn.jp\/users\/landley"},{"id":375620,"screen_name":"pkal","fullname":"Philip","profileurl":"https:\/\/social.sdfeu.org\/@pkal","ostatus_uri":"https:\/\/social.sdfeu.org\/users\/pkal"},{"id":376005,"screen_name":"jti42","fullname":"JTI","profileurl":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/@jti42","ostatus_uri":"https:\/\/infosec.exchange\/users\/jti42"}],"fave_num":0,"repeat_num":0,"is_post_verb":true,"is_local":false,"favorited":false,"repeated":false}