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"The" state, with no competition, like there's only one state? Belgium isn't big enough to realistically have its own linux, but France and Germany are.
by ben_w 10mo ago
"The" state, with no competition, like there's only one state?
Belgium isn't big enough to realistically have its own linux, but France and Germany are.
- pepa65 10mo agoOf course it's big enough. Why would it not be big enough??
- ben_w 10mo agoAll the usual reasons for comparative advantage, plus have you seen the size of OS codebases these days?
- integralid 10mo agoNorth Korea has its own Linux. Google has its own Linux. There are Linux distributions maintained by a single person. Belgium will do fine.
- ben_w 10mo agoMaintained, with heavy leaning on other people having actually written all the stuff, enabled by an open market. The hypothetical specifically precludes that.