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What would happen if Windows went open source?
If Microsoft does open source Windows, the operating system can still be a money maker in its own right. In open sourcing Windows, Microsoft could expand the use of its OS. Open code is easier to test, easier to shape, easier to build into something else.
Will Windows ever be open source?
Open sourcing Windows seems unlikely in the near (5 years) future, it is still an important source of revenue for Microsoft. Its possible in a new services oriented Microsoft, but they attempts to deliver they services outside the windows ecosystem are still very few.
Does Microsoft hate open source?
Microsoft has admitted it was wrong about open source, after the company battled it and Linux for years at the height of its desktop domination. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously branded Linux “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches” back in 2001.
Why has Linux been so successful?
Stallman also wrote that “mainly the reason” for Linux’s success was that “Torvalds made Linux free software, and since then more of the community’s effort has gone into Linux than into the Hurd.”
What are the pros and cons of Linux?
Linux is free and has different distributions, for example Ubuntu, CentOS, and Debian. Every distribution has its pros and cons. Each is used for different applications. Linux’s hard disk is considered a lightweight.
What happened to GNU/Linux?
Instead, Linux ended up as the kernel that glued the rest of the GNU pieces together, even though that had never been in the GNU plans.
Is Linux a failing operating system?
That was generally true of Linux, in contrast to, for instance, GNU HURD, which took a more centrally directed approach to code development—and, as a result, “had been evidently failing” to build a complete operating system for a decade, in Raymond’s view. To an extent, this explanation makes sense, but it has some significant flaws.