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2232 | #4ee7 | ^ | Idézet | Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:52:25 +01

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IBM never learns. If nothing else, our old pally at m$ has proven, that software matters and matters a lot. Without it, the hardware is useless. It is as plain as a textfile, that if i provide - or support someone, who provides - a usable environment for my hardware, then more people will buy it. The opposite is also true. Less desktop POWER OS => less desktop POWER machine can be sold => less desktop POWER machine will be made => less POWER CPU-s will be needed (and sold) => IBM loses money.

Yeah, Apple got it right and Commodore screwed it up right...

About the number of Linux programmers, i have to disagree. The windows realm is like a hundredth times bigger. By statistics, we can safely state, that more programmers develops for windows than all users Linux have. I am not sure about Apple, but since they also have a ten times bigger userbase than Linux, there should be more Apple developers, than Linux.
Of course, if you meant just the companies, not the entire userbase, then you are right and pay no attention to this paragraph. :P

Yeah, Linux is fragmented. I think the guys at FreeDesktop are trying to change that, by forcing their solutions as the Linux standard, but it's more harm, than good; they don't care about UNIX principles or POSIX compliance and some of their solutions are just outright broken by concept (systemd, pkg-config, etc.) or very-very poorly implemented (pulseaudio, kdbus, etc.) and forcing these down on the throat of the entire Linux ecosystem is continously creating controversies. The biggest problem with them is still the Linuxism and not caring about other UNIX-es and since the UNIX realm has a common softwarebase among different UNIX-es, it is very worrysome for the BSD or Solaris/Illumos guys, that the mainstream softwares (apps, DE-s, tools, etc.) are becoming more and more FD-dependent. BTW, dependency, they have circular source-dependencies, one package depends on another, which depends on a third, which depends on the first. Good luck compiling them on non-Linux environments, where they are not already provided. They are literally killing other UNIX-es, while making Linux more and more windows-like, either by incompetence, or on purpose.