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Linux Kernel vs Windows NT kernel
by Iolaum 8y ago
Linux Kernel vs Windows NT kernel
- yborg 8y agoIn what sense did the Linux kernel "win"? Microsoft continues to make a lot of money from Windows Server. Nobody but Red Hat makes any money off the Linux kernel.
- zeth___ 8y agoThat you mistake a monopoly for a victory and not a market failure says a lot more about your values than about the relative merits of open source vs closed source.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> That you mistake a monopoly for a victory and not a market failure says a lot more about your values One, insulting others on this forum isn't productive. Two, our broader discussion is about Chinese technological policy. I doubt anyone in Beijing is concerned about victory by way of market failure.
- cynwoody 8y ago>Nobody but Red Hat makes any money off the Linux kernel. You forgot about Canonical. But the real point is, in the wild, the Linux kernel predominates. Every Android user is a Linux kernel user. Every Chromebook user is a Linux kernel user. Every iOS user is a Unix user. Every Google server is a Linux kernel installation. The fact is, Linux/Unix rules. Except for the corporate desktop, where Windows predominates, at least for most (uninteresting) instances of "corporate".
- liotier 8y ago> Nobody but Red Hat makes any money off the Linux kernel Only if you define making money as directly selling... A big point of free software is that it is the user who makes the money !
- mseebach 8y agoNobody makes money on Linux by selling it as a stand-alone product, obviously. Even RedHat sells support, not software. But Linux makes some of the world's most successful companies possible in the first place: Imagine either of the FANGs if they had to pay Microsoft a license on every server. I'd say that's a win. (But agree that Linux hasn't necessarily won over Windows in any general sense).