Comment by ben_w
9 days 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.
9 days 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.
Of course it's big enough. Why would it not be big enough??
All the usual reasons for comparative advantage, plus have you seen the size of OS codebases these days?
North Korea has its own Linux. Google has its own Linux. There are Linux distributions maintained by a single person. Belgium will do fine.
Maintained, with heavy leaning on other people having actually written all the stuff, enabled by an open market.
The hypothetical specifically precludes that.