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That's the point of open source. Take what in the hands of a single company would be a monoculture and turn it into a vibrant market with lots of choice. Yes,
by sprout 16y ago
That's the point of open source. Take what in the hands of a single company would be a monoculture and turn it into a vibrant market with lots of choice.
Yes, of course it wins. It's a better development model.
- TomOfTTB 16y agoDidn't work for Desktop Linux. Many fans of Linux on the desktop would tell you its better than Windows yet it didn't come close to " winning" Same here. Android owes its success to licensing far more than it does to being Open Source
- blahedo 16y ago"didn't"? More like "hasn't yet"---and while I don't necessarily predict that desktop Linux will "win", whatever that might mean, it continues to gain market share.
- Lewisham 16y ago"hasn't yet" is the same thing people have said for the last decade.
- code_duck 16y agoThe computing world is changing dramatically. There might not be anything called a 'desktop' in 8 years. I'd wager that what you're using instead will involve Linux in some way.
- Samuel_Michon 16y ago2000 will be the year of Linux on the desktop! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Linux#Year_of_Desktop_Linux http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_Linux#Year_of_Desktop_L...
- blahedo 16y agoWhile this is perfectly true, Linux is A) not dead and B) gaining market share, so it is simply disingenuous to claim that it has lost or that it definitively didn't "win". To the extent that it's even meaningful to refer to "winners" and "losers", the game's still on.