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[–] nil@piefed.ca 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

And soon there would be a corpo that will make a closed source commercial OS based on Linux and people will somehow use their crap.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Like Android? It's getting more closed every day.

[–] nil@piefed.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Oops, completely forgot about it

I don't think ChromeOS is going to win though

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] nil@piefed.ca 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Redhat is opensource, it's just not free to use

Rocky and Fedora are based off it ig

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Iirc, didn't they start basically selling access to the source code?

[–] nil@piefed.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Still better than completely proprietary OS that lets you use AI assistant you didn't ask for

I mean, this can happen to the future of Linux