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If Current Trends Continue, Linux Will be a Dominant OS in ~10 Years (fosstodon.org)
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If Current Trends Continue, Linux Will be a Dominant OS in ~10 Years

https://logicalerzor.codeberg.page/blog/linux-desktop-growth-trajectory/

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[โ€“] peterhorvath@mastodon.de 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@sbeak Problem of the BSD license is that it can be forked and closed... macos was once a BSD...

[โ€“] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, that was my point, sorry if it wasn't clear. You mentioned GPL, which is copyleft (which tries to resolve this issue by ensuring that projects using GPL code also need to be open source)