• CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    il y a 4 mois

    My guess: Microsoft caters to power users more. Apple doesn’t care. Android OEMs try to integrate better with Linux since there’s a cross section of users. Android doesn’t have the Apple ecosystem, so working with Linux distribution makers makes sense.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    il y a 4 mois

    10% of desktop systems, yeah?

    I don’t think 10% is any kind of magic number. I’m sure as Linux share increases, more companies will try to horn in and somehow enshittify the Linux ecosystem to try to milk people for money. But I doubt 10% is any special threshold.

    • regenwetter@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      il y a 4 mois

      EEE (embrace, extend, extinguish; hard to do with Linux since it’s a headless beast)

      If Microsoft bought Red Hat, they would control a massive chunk of the Linux ecosystem. Even if everyone starts forking or replacing the Red Hat-centered components, it would certainly deal a blow to the Linux ecosystem.

  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    il y a 4 mois

    The magic-number, in human-population tipping-points, is 1/5, aka 20%.

    Less than that in representation, and one has only “representation” ( any power-minority ).

    More than 80% representation, & suddenly the alternative doesn’t matter, politically.

    Also showed-up in the college-being-devalued-by-male-culture: once the 80% threshold is crossed of being women-only, then suddenly male-culture contempts there could be ANY validity in college & that’s that.

    20%-threshold crossing would suddenly force Linux into being valid in legislators’ eyes.

    Until then, Microsoft can push that the OS MUST be the identity-police, as a means of forcing-into-being-illegal all Linux distros which can’t do that.

    You’ll notice that they’re acting rather pre-emptively, even enforcing that systemd has the required code to be participating in being age-police surveillance…

    Legislative-validity’s the thing that’ll change, & that either happens at 1/5, XOR it happens when some tuxhead gets into power, somehow, making Linux legislatively valid.

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