Ubuntu's (failed) Kickstarter raised 12.8 million to build a phone which seems like a lot Purism raised something like 2.5 and are using it to develop their fi

Ubuntu's (failed) Kickstarter raised 12.8 million to build a phone which seems like a lot Purism raised something like 2.5 and are using it to develop their first phone, and it seems to be going great, on track for April release. Ubuntu etc are making money and doing good work. While that's great, I think you're right. That for example, GNOME releases don't have nearly as much goodies as say Mac OS, because they're working with drastically less money and employees. Take Firefox OS or Ubuntu touch. The amount of money being pumped into iOS and Android must be absolutely incredible. How do these open source vendors compete with the billions of platform investment from these giants? They just end up with an interior product, so they end up with no market share. Some bright lights are Ubuntu and duckduckgo, they're profitable and have their niches. I think I'm suggesting they band together because that can only increase adoption amongst them all - if for example Firefox had duckduckgo as default, and Linux had Firefox as default, that would help those services quite a bit. I guess though, that if Firefox is targeting mass adoption, they'll have more luck with Google as default. Which is sad.