Re:Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform
by Ygg2 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @02:48PM
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> But who is "they"
People that wrote if not the original kernel. So l guess Linus and co.
If an OS is to "win" desktop, or mobile, or whatever, it needs to minimize forking between its libs. Go for one way to do it, rather than a muriad of related ways
But who is "they", Linux the OS doesn't exist as Linux is just a kernel. There are countless distributions that assemble operating systems from parts, throwing GNU userland on top of Linux kernel and other bits of software on top of the GNU userland and the kernel.
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD are operating systems, the developers do both the kernel and the userland.
In the early days of PC BSD I've tried to kickstart a new DE, just for PC BSD to break free from the rest of open source operating systems, and to have an UI that only work on PC BSD, is consistent - the same way Windows and macOS have their UI layers. And I failed at it, because I am human and I need to earn a living.