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Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by toyg on Thursday May 04, 2023 @01:26PM (#35819039)
> Linux won in servers and supercomputing, but not in end user computing

"End user computing" these days means mobile, and mobile is dominated by Linux (in Apple's case BSD, but we're splitting hair) and Chrome/WebKit - which began as KHTML.

The only area where opensource failed is the desktop, and that's also because of Microsoft's skill in defending their moats.

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Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by kenjackson on Thursday May 04, 2023 @01:35PM (#35819197)
The kernel isn't the OS/environment. Distiling iOS to BSD is just not useful in the context of this discussion.
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Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by toyg on Thursday May 04, 2023 @04:53PM (#35821901)
The kernel is absolutely the OS, the desktop environment is an interface to it.
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Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by kenjackson on Thursday May 04, 2023 @06:11PM (#35822826)
The kernel is part of it. But it's not all of it. Again, especially in the context of this discussion.
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Re:Google “We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI” by tremon on Thursday May 04, 2023 @06:31PM (#35822992)
Is e.g. libc part of the OS, or the desktop environment?
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