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Re:The things nobody wants to pay for by Workaccount2 on Friday January 26, 2024 @10:21AM (#39143640)
If Torvalds wants to earn more, he should focus on making Linux more user friendly rather than more Linux-geek friendly.

Linux could get dramatically more resources if they could just drop their big-ego'd "CLI is god" mentality. Yes, Linux is a powerhouse OS, but it only appeals to a tiny slice of the population.

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Re:The things nobody wants to pay for by ToucanLoucan on Friday January 26, 2024 @10:32AM (#39143785)
How goes greater userbase intrinsically mean more resources and not simply a much larger pool of angry emails from users encountering issues with their hardware?
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Re:The things nobody wants to pay for by Workaccount2 on Friday January 26, 2024 @02:58PM (#39147376)
Because it will attract the talent of people who want to fix the OS that 40% of their users use.
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Re:The things nobody wants to pay for by Ologn on Friday January 26, 2024 @08:09PM (#39151233)
There are currently 3 billion active Android devices, and they are powered by Linux. There is a helicopter on Mars that runs Linux. I think Linus has done fine focusing on what he is focused on.
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