Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 15th Aug 2008 05:18 UTC
InformationWeek is speculating on how Linux will change in the next four years. "By 2012 the OS will have matured into three basic usage models. Web-based apps rule, virtualization is a breeze, and command-line hacking for basic system configuration is a thing of the past."
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There is no room in the OS market for another Windows-alike OS. OS X has its hardware niche, but that's it.
It's called a monopoly, you know?
The only chance GNU/Linux has is actually not to rely on a typical business model. Linux is only able to grow (very slowly but) steadly on the Desktop because it has not to compete with Windows at all.
And that's the only way for it to survive. Your model would just fail on the market, as others did before. Think about OS/2 or BeOS. Both were sophisticated approaches, the first one was even out before Windows 95.