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For the desktop/UI that end users use, for reasons I don't understand, seems to work better if it's maintained by a large commercial enterprise. That's why Win
by kokey 8y ago
For the desktop/UI that end users use, for reasons I don't understand, seems to work better if it's maintained by a large commercial enterprise. That's why Windows works, Android works, Ubuntu worked a bit and obviously MacOS and iOS.
I see Fuchsia as a good compromise here, it's going to have more free and open layers than MacOS on top of Darwin has. It's going to avoid a lot of the security issues Windows had and even the Debian/Ubuntu OSes and can probably be closer to MacOS/iOS in that way. It's certainly going to be a lot more open than Windows.
However, in the end, it will also allow Google, hardware and graphics library makers to have more proprietary parts that they control the vision on around the end user experience. It can certainly be the Windows alternative we need and hopefully Microsoft will realise that open sourcing Windows and allowing forks will be the best way for the OS to survive.