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Reminds me of Microsoft killing Nokia and their new Linux phones.
I doubt it would've won anyway. There were loads of OS's at that time, most not having the issue of the US government intervening, and none of them won either.
Had the japenese not been spooked by the sugestion it waa a threat(which was cleared up as not being one) it totally could have been adopted nationwide, as it was ready to deploy to their schools.
And today we have BSD as the basis of Apples OS.
Microsoft has gone from say 85% market share down to the 60s now I think.
Maybe we will see a day MS loses to Linux since that hit 10% use last month, and has over 15% use in India.
MS certainly is not helping themselves win lately.
Could have? Maybe. Likely would have? No.
Based on what?
Are you assuming a threshold moment, would happen the same under different circumstances?
You're including Android, server, and embedded numbers for Linux right?
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam
I cannot find a source for the 10% claim, highest I found within a minute of searching was ~7%
There are reports from March 2025 that show 2% however I did not see how that number was reached.
On Wikipedia they show 3.9%(rounded) and a giant unknown number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
I'm convinced that it becomes much harder because every operating system has a different name for the user agent.
My speculation is that most data is just pulled from cloudflare. However I got bored at this point and only found macro statistics like Mobile vs Desktop or the browser application used.
https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage
Pretty cool information though.
No Desktop only. There were articles about the 10% recently. India has been 15% for a while. Steam Deck and SteamOS seems to have given a boost to Linux adoption in the last 2-3 years
Turkey tried to push Pardus (a debian based distro developed in Turkey) in its earliest days as a national OS alternative that on a proposed law would be required to be listed as an option you can choose when buyjng your computer, then Bill Gates stepped in to have talks with the government and that law idea stopped.
Currently they're on another push by having it be taught on computer lessons and forcing it on smart boards, but the effects it could've gotten back then would be crazy.
I remember seeing it somewhere ages ago, might not be correct.
It was saying the reason why Microsoft was dominant on OS market right now because it was Sony didn’t wanted to invest in operating systems back then.
"Capitalism breeds innovation."
Also capitalism:
One of the biggest lie to keep the current system in place.
Private corporations parasite themselves into R&D paid for by the government and act like they invented the fire again.
The Internet is built on FOSS and got captured to be sold back to us.
Capitalism breeds innovation just like people leave their partner when they finally have enough to be abused.
Competition breeds innovation. Commercial pressure can be one source of such competition, but isn't the only one.
Capitalism abhors competition. It breeds innovation only if it serves to eliminate competition.
And once upon a time there were more than three PC graphics card makers. The paranoid schizo US really fucked up scientific and technological progress.
have you heard of Macintosh? you've heard of Mac's right.
little company called Apple? lol sheeeesh
Apple only makes garbage
I don't use apple products, but I understand their M1 chips are good.
They rose to the top because they were the only country that could still build things after the rest of the world got flattened in World War II. Then the rest of the world rebuilt itself so the only asset the US had left was economic inertia. They then proceeded to spend decades doing everything they could to increase the value of that inertia by using their influence to encourage policies that resulted the rich getting richer.
Something similar happened to Slovene Iskra Triglav computer which was quite advanced for the time (capable of running three different CPUs) but then caught in between US-Soviet cold war/embargo while trying to sell them to Soviet Union.
Three CPUs with different architectures on one device sounds crazy. That's amazing.
PS3 comes to mind
Though in embedded, thats fairly normal.
I've got a $1 linux embedded SoC that has a 64 bit riscv core, a 32 bit riscv core for running realtime stuff and a low power embedded 6502 on it too because why not.
That tracks.
The more I learn about American history the more frustrated I become with our species in general. Our country could be so much more livable now, but for a handful of vulgarly wealthy people who only ever cared about number going up at any cost.
And to make it worse I'm reading a biography of John D. Rockefeller, so I'm about to hate our species just a tiny bit more.
While you're in that mood check the documentary Hypernormalization from BBC. Explains a lot.
And when it ends check the year it came our for extra oof.
It’s time for other countries to create their own operating systems again
Make other countries create other operating systems again
