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@profoundlynerdy 10 years it will replace Linux. Linux Will be highly commercial Focused in 10 years
Bitslingers-R-Us@jaypatelani @profoundlynerdy I loosely agree with this. Linux is a popularity contest and is becoming more and more corporately owned and controlled.
Open source wants to be a part of that, and as long as the needs of open source communities and corporations align, things will be fine. When corporations want things that the open source people don't, we see fragmentation and problems. That's already happening, but many in the open source community don't see it yet, but the schisms are there.
The BSDs don't treat other distros as competitors. They generally don't do things based on the markets. If someone has the time, energy and desire to support a thing, they support it, and if someone wants to come along and tell others to, say, stop supporting VAX or 32 bit x86, they'll have to explain why the people who want to support it should be actively stopped from supporting it.
So in ten years, I can easily see Linux being much further down the road of being more Windows-like, and I can see the BSDs gathering more users who want to do things with OSes that feel and act open, and aren't just open in name.
Open source wants to be a part of that, and as long as the needs of open source communities and corporations align, things will be fine. When corporations want things that the open source people don't, we see fragmentation and problems. That's already happening, but many in the open source community don't see it yet, but the schisms are there.
The BSDs don't treat other distros as competitors. They generally don't do things based on the markets. If someone has the time, energy and desire to support a thing, they support it, and if someone wants to come along and tell others to, say, stop supporting VAX or 32 bit x86, they'll have to explain why the people who want to support it should be actively stopped from supporting it.
So in ten years, I can easily see Linux being much further down the road of being more Windows-like, and I can see the BSDs gathering more users who want to do things with OSes that feel and act open, and aren't just open in name.
nia@profoundlynerdy we'll merge the wifi renewal branch