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by pjmlp 746 days ago
Just wait until the Linux founding fathers are no longer around.

Try to write Linux POSIX code for Android, WebOS, and ChromeOS apps, and see how many normies will buy your wonderfull app.

Free beer ate the world, everyone likes free beer, even it is warm.

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Alan Cox will do it fine, and the rest of the people have similar skills on GNU licensing and such.
I think he counts as one of the founding fathers. He was the second-in-command when I met him in about 1997 or 1998.

And note what he turned to when he left: an 8-bit OS.

https://www.fuzix.org/

Where do you think he got that antipathy for large and complex systems?

Yes, free as in beer and free as in freedom. No complicated licensing, code open for change, any scale, any use-case.

Hard to compete against with all these "license per working space" or "tcp stack not included" or "no code for you" of the usual competitors.

> Just wait until the Linux founding fathers are no longer around.

Yes, things change all the time. People come and go. Just as companies do.