• JungleJim@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Google forks Linux to make a mobile operating system, stripping out lots of familiar FOSS software and licensing requirements and replacing it with their own. Also it’s written in java.

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    7 months ago

    Granted.

    Now everyone’s grandparents are calling you to help them get everything working the way it used to…

  • DrunkDragon@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Granted. Linux Monthly now has a 20% share of the computer related magazine market, both subscription and newsstand. While most readers report buying it for the in-depth Linux news, many suspect they’re actually buying it for the centerfold. Surveys indicate 93% of Linux Monthly don’t know what Linux is. I will let your imagination run wild about the subject of the centerfold.

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    7 months ago

    Granted (literally IRL): 50%+ of Internet users are on mobile devices, 70%+ of those are running Android, and Android uses the Linux kernel, so Linux market share is already over 20%.

    It’s just that it’s DRM’d and un-Free bastard Linux, not GNU.


    Alternatively:

    Granted: Android marketshare drops from 70% of the mobile market to <40% (so that the Linux marketshare across mobile+desktop no longer exceeds 20%), and fully-proprietary OSs take up the slack.