Google seems to be putting a lot of resources into their new Fuchsia OS, which though open source, is still completely managed by Google. It also has the drawback of not being under copyleft licenses like GPL, which means other companies can just take it and make proprietary forks.
People who have followed the Fuchsia project, do you see it eventually becoming a significant enough competitor to Linux to be a threat to it, and therefore giving Google even more control of the software world?
I wouldn’t consider it a threat for a really long time, but that is an interesting thought. I think that fuschia doesn’t at the moment have any intention of moving in to the server world of operating systems, at the moment its not even being made for desktop or smartphone systems, but basic iot devices. I am probably not a good authority on this but I feel like even if fuschia tried to be able to be a server OS it wouldn’t be very popular compared to the giant that is linux, which has decades of reputation and software support.
also while reading a bit more into this, I found this post which might be of some interest to you, in it the writer brings up the fact that businesses rarely are looking to use the shiny new technology, they want the stable and reliable software that they can trust will be there are supported for the foreseeable future. I think that’s a really good point, they also bring up other good points like how much a lot of major companies have invested in linux so far and hardware support. I also feel like competitors to google will specifically not be switching to fuschia or derivatives.
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