New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Has FOSS Software Won?
Ask HN: Has FOSS Software Won?
2 by foobar_ | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Considering the following markets - Embedded - Server / Web / Cloud - Gaming Console - Mobile - Enterprise Software - Desktop In all the markets except desktop open source software has > 50% market share. If you consider Mac and Chrome OS, Virtual Machine Installs, Desktop reinstalls, people using both Windows and Linux at $work ... I would wager that FOSS Desktop Market share is well over 15%. Based on that would you say FOSS has won ? Where FOSS has failed IMO is closed computing and closed data. Reducing a general purpose computer to a vendor purpose computer by means of special firmware with the Apple CPU being the new culprit on the block. This also happens on the cloud. This is why Mac or Playstation are still considered closed source as compared to Android which is allows you to install ROMs for the most part. For some strange reason it is acceptable for data to be closed source. It is clearly where the money is. The user owns the data and the more I look at it ... the idea of transferable copyright for perpetuity is absurd.
2 by foobar_ | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Considering the following markets - Embedded - Server / Web / Cloud - Gaming Console - Mobile - Enterprise Software - Desktop In all the markets except desktop open source software has > 50% market share. If you consider Mac and Chrome OS, Virtual Machine Installs, Desktop reinstalls, people using both Windows and Linux at $work ... I would wager that FOSS Desktop Market share is well over 15%. Based on that would you say FOSS has won ? Where FOSS has failed IMO is closed computing and closed data. Reducing a general purpose computer to a vendor purpose computer by means of special firmware with the Apple CPU being the new culprit on the block. This also happens on the cloud. This is why Mac or Playstation are still considered closed source as compared to Android which is allows you to install ROMs for the most part. For some strange reason it is acceptable for data to be closed source. It is clearly where the money is. The user owns the data and the more I look at it ... the idea of transferable copyright for perpetuity is absurd.
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