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Does the word monopoly even have meaning when the "product" is open source? It's not like a single company controls linux, it is contributed to and grows from
by larzang 7y ago
Does the word monopoly even have meaning when the "product" is open source? It's not like a single company controls linux, it is contributed to and grows from input from many people and many companies worldwide, all of whom have an interest in seeing it flourish.
Is HTML a monopoly? Is JS a monopoly?
- trilila 7y agoIMO it does have meaning, in the a technical sense, not necessarily commercially. JS does monopolize browser scripting. Now that you mentioned it, it's quite interesting that there are basically no competitors to JS, in the browser.
- SenHeng 7y ago> it's quite interesting that there are basically no competitors to JS, in the browser Because the next best way to change a standard is add another one? For all the moaning about javascript over the past decades, it has evolved into a fairly formidable language since 2015. I’m not even sure introducing a new language would help anything at all. It would simply be quickly adopted by those the very same abusers. Maybe the solution instead is to have better browsers and implement better privacy policies.
- trilila 7y agoI like JS, actually. It would be great to have some diversity tho. Also i agree on having better browsers.
- diroussel 7y agoYou are right that monopoly only applies in a market. Sometimes the word ‘monoculture’ is useful to describe this kind of situation. However there is a large amount of diversity within Linux, so I would hesitate to call it a monoculture.