Linux is the name of a computer operating system kernel and a group of systems built on it, like Ubuntu or Mint. Linux is the basic infrastructure of the Internet. It’s important. A report ju…
He’s also rewriting history. Linux launched and attracted its initial developers as a social movement. People worked hard to get a system with actual principles that wasn’t about screwing its users over. There were movies about this! Torvalds spoke in them! Claiming Linux was always pure technology with no social element is simply false.
No, open source has always been the capital compatible version of libre software. The main reason why Linux has gained so much market share in recent years is because of em-dollar sign fucking up with Windoze 11 and corpos like Valve investing their resources into the development of Linux.
Linus was always a techbro who “only cares about the technical aspects of open source software.” This whole thing is just the chickens coming home to roost.
There was a social movement aspect to Linux in its earliest days, as in, the days before kernel 1.0. Hell, before he got the big bux to finally unshackle himself from Finland (and his communist father) to heartland of fascism, paedophilia, and capital itself.
Linux is still tiny versus Windows on desktop. Steam still shows it around 3% - a big improvement, but even Firefox is more popular. Perhaps that will change more as governments seek to leave Windows following the shitshows of migrating from XP, 7, and 10, but right now the market is undoutably locked down by Windows.
No doubt steam isn’t the best metric but it’s not likely to be far off that number. The kernel is only dominant due to servers (license free and its early adopters being UNIX sysadmins) and embedded/mobile (configurability letting it run on anything capable of conducting electricity) - the rest have never been central to Linux’s success, nor the reason why massive datacenter stakeholders pay inordinate sums of money to the Linux foundation.
No, open source has always been the capital compatible version of libre software. The main reason why Linux has gained so much market share in recent years is because of em-dollar sign fucking up with Windoze 11 and corpos like Valve investing their resources into the development of Linux.
Linus was always a techbro who “only cares about the technical aspects of open source software.” This whole thing is just the chickens coming home to roost.
There was a social movement aspect to Linux in its earliest days, as in, the days before kernel 1.0. Hell, before he got the big bux to finally unshackle himself from Finland (and his communist father) to heartland of fascism, paedophilia, and capital itself.
Linux is still tiny versus Windows on desktop. Steam still shows it around 3% - a big improvement, but even Firefox is more popular. Perhaps that will change more as governments seek to leave Windows following the shitshows of migrating from XP, 7, and 10, but right now the market is undoutably locked down by Windows.
No doubt steam isn’t the best metric but it’s not likely to be far off that number. The kernel is only dominant due to servers (license free and its early adopters being UNIX sysadmins) and embedded/mobile (configurability letting it run on anything capable of conducting electricity) - the rest have never been central to Linux’s success, nor the reason why massive datacenter stakeholders pay inordinate sums of money to the Linux foundation.
I wonder if the recent AI slop Office and Adobe clones will, eventually, be - or at least contribute to - Microsoft’s downfall.