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?

    • AgreeableLandscapeOPM
      5·
      4 years ago

      To be fair, they could be planning to move Fuchsia to an independent foundation like Linux after it goes out of beta. But Google would most likely still be the biggest stakeholder so their company would still be effectively gaining market share.

  • SirLotsaLocks
    6·
    4 years ago

    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.

    • SirLotsaLocks
      4·
      4 years ago

      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.

      @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml so you get notified of this

  • ghost_laptop
    21·
    4 years ago

    If anything I think it will help in some areas, I think the tactic behind it being at least partially open source is that manufacturers can use their operating system without paying fees (which is the contrary of what MS does) and that will help them gain a monopoly in the mobile OSs, which is the same they did with Android. But I think it could help in stuff like gaming, for example, but yeah, shitty but Linux isn’t going to be moving anywhere.

  • Zambyte
    1·
    4 years ago

    Likely in the mobile space, it will at least replace Linux on Google Pixels, and I would bet the Samsung line of phones. It might also replace Linux in Chromebooks. I don’t really see it going any further than that.