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| From | Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.misc |
| Subject | [OT] free software |
| Date | 2025-09-04 18:25 +0000 |
| Organization | Dbus-free station. |
| Message-ID | <bC-peem20zl6EX_m@violet.siamics.net> (permalink) |
| References | (6 earlier) <108m6ft$fkhm$1@dont-email.me> <gl4a18y3Ssi0BNk0@violet.siamics.net> <108vuu7$2sngv$7@dont-email.me> <BIGKsGzx4FT8BdNs@violet.siamics.net> <1092j1h$3ghoq$5@dont-email.me> |
>>>>> On 2025-08-31, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >>>>> On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:35:51 +0000, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> Indeed, one good thing about free software is that when one company >> closes down, another can pick up and go on from there. Such as how >> Netscape is no more, yet the legacy of its Navigator still survives >> in Firefox. >> I'm not sure how much of a consolation it is to the people who owned >> the companies that failed, though. > Companies fail all the time, open source or no open source. When > a company that has developed a piece of proprietary software fails, > then the software dies with the company. With open source, the > software stands a chance of living on. It sounds like we're in agreement on this point, no? My other point, however, is this: when you do run a business, shouldn't you be more concerned that said /business/ succeeds, rather than the products it delivers, whatever they might be? And from where I stand, releasing software targetting tomorrow's computers is, as a rule, a better business practice - than targetting decade-old ones. > E.g. Loki was an early attempt at developing games on Linux. They > failed. But the SDL framework that they created for low-latency > multimedia graphics lives on. Yes, that too. (Though I like my Firefox example better.) >> Also, what indication is there that GNU is 'dominating' the >> landscape? Sure, Linux is everywhere (such as in now ubiquitous >> Android phones and TVs and whatnot), but I don't quite see GNU >> being adopted as widely. > Look at all the markets that Linux has taken away from Microsoft -- > Windows Media Center, Windows Home Server -- all defunct. Windows > Server too is in slow decline. I've had very little interest in Microsoft since the 1990s. About the only Microsoft-related news I've since paid attention to were that Microsoft contributed a fair chunk of code to Linux; that Microsoft acquired Github; and that Windows now has WSL. I have no idea what Windows Media Center is (or was), and what alternatives to it the GNU project, http://gnu.org/ , now offers. (I'd guess VLC and FFmpeg might be such alternatives, but last I've checked, they were not part of GNU.) > And now handheld gaming with the Steam Deck. You will find GNU there. So I've read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Deck and found out that the device runs SteamOS which, as of version 3.0, is based on Arch Linux, thus presumably retaining a fair chunk of GNU within. (Bash, Coreutils, Libc, to guess a few packages. I doubt it includes GNU Emacs or GNU Chess, though.) That said, I'm not sure Steam Deck can /itself/ be said to dominate the market: w> Market research firm International Data Corporation estimated that w> between 3.7 and 4 million Steam Decks had been sold by the third w> anniversary of the device in February 2025. How big a market share of handheld gaming computers is 4e6? Also, I gather it's not a direct competitor to Android and Android-based mobile computers, right?
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