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“Most open-source software developers are not paid….”Greetings, time traveler from 1998!The Linux kernel 4.18rc6 dropped on July 22, 2018. A few notes from the good folks at Linux Weekly News:As of 4.18-rc6, 12,879 non-merge changesets had found their way into the mainline repository. This work was contributed by 1,668 developers who added 553,000 lines of code and removed 652,000 lines, for a net reduction of 99,000 lines.Paid contributors were responsible for >85% of the changesets and >90% of the changed lines of code.Source: Statistics from the 4.18 development cycleHow do you think your proprietary software is going to compete against code written collaboratively by Intel, AMD, IBM, Oracle, Samsung, Facebook and Google?Hoisting this from the comments (quoting myself):The Nuclear National Security Administration (NNSA) just signed a $600M contract with Cray to build the El Capitan supercomputer. We have a lot of supercomputers and we really prefer that all of our vendors give us the same tools that we use on all of our other supercomputers. Rather than keep all of those tools in-house, LLNL has open-sourced them.A system integrator like Cray (or IBM, or HPE) could try to sell us their own proprietary operating system — in fact, they’d much rather do that, as it leads to vendor lock-in. However, trying to keep up with Linux development is just too damn expensive: no matter how many extra features they add, they’re having to compete with “free” Linux. So they sell us Linux. But… Linux needs to work well on the systems they’re selling us (or work at least as well as their competitors), so they contribute to Linux and the related tool chains in order to have a competitive product.A processor vendor like AMD, Intel, ARM or IBM understands their processor is dead in the water unless Linux runs well on it. The expensive way to do this is doing what nVidia does: a closed-source compatibility layer. nVidia is now on the hook for making sure that works with a large number of fast-moving kernel configurations, and they haven’t done particularly well there. They’re printing money, though, so they can afford it, but once a competitor pops up in their space they’ll start looking at the cheaper solution: put their code in the kernel and let the community maintain it.A company like Google, Microsoft, Amazon or Oracle spends a lot of effort customizing Linux to make it run fast for their customers. If they keep those modifications in-house, every time they try to upgrade to a newer version of Linux something (or many things) will break. Getting that code into Linux means new patches that break their stuff will probably be rejected, or at least there will be some negotiation about who gets to spend time fixing things.To wrap up…. none of these companies are trying to sell free software. They’re trying to sell system integration, or processors, or services. Using free software allows them to do that more cheaply, and contributing back to free software reduces costs even further.

I assume you are referring to this: IBM Joins Spark CommunityIBM as a company does several things. They sell hardware and they sell software, but the thing they focus on the most is selling solutions to large businesses and government departments.IBM understands open source and has a history of contributions (Open Source at IBM) such as the development environment Eclipse (which came from IBM Canada).IBM understands that Spark is a data processing platform that scales very economically, and performs faster and is more flexible that some of the open source alternatives (e.g. MapReduce).So IBM views Spark as a data processing technology that they can use to help deliver solutions to their large customers by embedding it into their platforms.To quote the IBM announcement:“Our clients will benefit as we help them embrace Spark to advance their own data strategies to drive business transformation and competitive differentiation.”

Amelia is now being deployed by fortune 1000 companies to replace customer service personnel.The place to pay really close attention is IBM's Watson division. They are partnering with hundreds of companies for different vertical applications. Two that come to mind immediately are medical diagnosis and legal research.For marketing purposes, IBM understandably talks about helping people and providing assistance. But the reality is that the help and assistance will be offered to people who remain after the layoffs.