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  • opensource can’t be monetized for advertisements.

    It can!

    That’s what Google did with Android: Google literally made a free open-source operating system everybody could copy, use and develop for for free, to create a wildly successful ecosystem.

    Once the ecosystem was fully developed, slowly, year after year, Google moved features out of the open-source AOSP project and into their proprietary stack. Look at AOSP now: it’s a shadow of its former self.

    And now they’re killing off AOSP and AOSP-derivatives and turning Android into their own Apple-style walled garden.

    I’d say Google very successfully used open-source to its advantage. Google sure knows how to play the long game.



  • (no consumer is going to pay for extended) begins to really push people to Windows 11

    Consumers aren’t exactly ecstatic about throwing away perfectly serviceable computers just so Microsoft can push their spyware-cum-advertising platform down their throats either.

    I’d say this is a great push towards Linux for anybody who knows anything about computers and isn’t a corporation with a dumbass MCSE jockey as an “IT” guy.