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Comment by idiotsecant

3 days ago

And yet, Linux runs approximately every ounce of computing substrate on earth

The point that I was responding to was that open sores leads to faster development. It's 2026 and "Next Year will be the year of Linux on the Desktop" since about 2000.

One would have to conclude that there is little correlation b/w openness and progress speed. Sometimes open is faster, sometimes it isn't.

The Linux Foundation was bankrolled by the US government (via grants and code donations) to undermine the EU Operating System industry. Symbian was going to be amazing, until Microsoft - an American company with government links - nuked it /s