[kelnage]

It’s not at all clear how you are comparing Linux to its closed competitors, but frankly, if that’s the best example you can pick, I’d suggest copyright is largely winning that battle. Yes, Linux has probably “won” in some markets (servers/IoT being the obvious ones), but there are plenty of markets where that is not even close to being true.

[necheffa]

> plenty

Actually, just one, the desktop.

In virtually every other market, Linux is either dominating or has a firm share.

[the-dude]

MS dominates the server side in corporations too.

[prepend]

I don’t think any more. With cloud, AWS, Azure, Google have more Linux server vms than windows.

So maybe MS dominates the withering on prem data center world. But that’s smaller than cloud nowadays.

[ChrisLomont]

Phones, billions of devices running various embedded real-time os, gaming like Xbox and playstation, watches, smart TVs, medical devices, space systems, and many other places are not Linux dominated, and many of these have almost zero Linux presence.

[est31]

> Phones

For smartphones, Linux-based Android has the largest market share. It is linux dominated. For less smart phones, there are Linux based operating systems like KaiOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS

Linux based OSs having 87% market share in india: https://www.androidauthority.com/india-kaios-market-share-88...

Global 74% market share for Android: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

> gaming like Xbox and playstation

Yes, I think most deployed devices don't use Linux, and I'm not aware of any major linux using gaming console, but it's not unheard of, e.g. SNES classic mini. Also, from what I saw, Linux has a good foothold for game streaming offerings, but it's a new market and not yet established that it'll last.

> smart TVs

smart TVs are almost exclusively on Linux!

https://www.statista.com/statistics/257778/number-of-smart-t...

WebOS, Tizen, Android TV, Roku OS, Firefox OS, Amazon Fire TV, all uses Linux.

[pjmlp]

Those are phyrric victories, nothing from Linux is exposed to userspace.

Google can replace Linux with Zirkon tomorrow and 99% of Android apps won't even notice.

Just like TVs, who cares what OS a smart TV is running.

[patmorgan23]

Xbox runs windows not Linux.

[kgwxd]

Almost all serious competition to Linux exist only because of copyright.