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?

    • NXL
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      4 years ago

      Google doesn’t need apple or Microsoft to support it or volunteers to support it though. They have billions of dollars to throw into this project just like apple does with macos and microsoft with windows. They can get by without volunteers and they will do what they can to get people to use their OS instead of truly free ones.

        • NXL
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          4 years ago

          Isnt fushcia going to mainly be a android replacement?

            • NXL
              1·
              4 years ago

              But those won’t be used in the US? Whatever replaces android will be mainstream because people who think about operating systems (most people) who buy a phone other than iphone will have this new OS