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Making a good OS costs money also but linux is given away for free. Is linux unfairly competing with Microsoft and Apple?
by voxic11 2y ago
Making a good OS costs money also but linux is given away for free. Is linux unfairly competing with Microsoft and Apple?
- Teever 2y agoYou have to look at this on a case by case basis. It's not hard to see that the browser market has suffered from the actions of Google, while the operating system market has not suffered from the actions of Linux. If anything antitrust action against Google might give Microsoft another kick at the mobile can and they can take on the Linux-based android OS that Google distributes.
- pjmlp 2y agoTaking IBM as an example, they were one of the first in 2000 to make Linux business a reality, because in doing so, it makes their own Aix development costs lower, and eventually played so well that they own Red-Hat, without which, many key projects like GCC and GNOME would lose their main source of income. The other UNIX vendors that went out of business thanks to Linux's free beer, or Microsoft and Apple's issues trying to sell licenses for their OSes on the server room, both now supporting Linux VMs as "The Year of Desktop Linux", are good examples that when it is free, everyone takes it no matter how it goes.