Originally Posted by ReaperX7
(Post 5275624)
I've often wondered what "political correctness" would mean for software, and now I see how truly bad being politically correct with software is and what is has done to Linux.
Forcing GNU/Linux to remold itself into another Windows-wannabe to try and compete for a desktop marketshare it will never have, is futile. I honestly remember Windows users talking about trying out Ubuntu because it was the most Windows-like GNU/Linux distribution back when Vista was being put through the grinders, and yet does GNU/Linux still have a marketshare on par with Windows or OS-X? Not even close.
All I know is, I do not want to use CoreOS on any level, nor do I want to use any Red Hat operating systems. I've been there, done that, and would like to avoid going back to it at all costs. My experience with Red Hat was one most foul.
Just because Windows has the highest desktop operating system marketshare doesn't mean anything. It only means Bill Gates was that much more clever a salesman than Steve Jobs, Linus Torvalds, and Richard Stallman were, or maybe ever could be. It also doesn't mean GNU/Linux has to dethrone Window or try. GNU/Linux users have been plenty happy over the years to use an alternative system for free, the same as BSD users.
The biggest flaw GNU/Linux faced or faces, is not an init problem, a service management problem, or any other issue claimed by Red Hat, Sievers, Poeterring, or any one else. The biggest flaw of GNU/Linux is the lack of willingness by commercial companies to develop software applications, games, utilities, etc. for GNU/Linux and BSD systems. Only one company sought to end that flaw by redeveloping commercial ports of software, namely Loki, and they didn't last long at all because nobody helped, funded, or contributed to them to further their efforts.
Even if we did get CoreOS or GnomeOS, or whatever systemd-esque-OS out there, it's not going to be able to compete if it has no software for it if companies turn their nose up at it.
Windows has a huge marketshare because of Gates marketing it, but also because companies wrote software for it, the same with Apple, Steve Jobs, and OS-X with their smaller marketshare, but if GNU/Linux gets no ports, it's not going to even get looked at. Free Software is nice, looks good on paper, and is budget friendly, but companies who write software, are going to want to make money, and while the GPL does grant the right to profit, it exposes trade secrets, and no company out there with a monopolized market is going to reveal trade secrets by using a GNU software based for development, so if systemd is going to solve any "problems", why can't solve that problem, the biggest, longest running issue of GNU/Linux?
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