Positions forming in the Debian init system discussion

Posted Jan 2, 2014 4:08 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Positions forming in the Debian init system discussion by mchapman
Parent article: Positions forming in the Debian init system discussion

> I think few people are aiming for any particular level of market share.

Well, Red Hat (who don't care about desktop: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/red-hat-opts-for...) and Canonical (who think they already won: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1) both agree with you, in a way. Which is probably the reason why there is no winner.

I am trying to imagine Google having the same attitude when it comes to Android/Chrome OS and it honestly does not compute. I really would not be surprised if Google ate Red Hat's and Canonical's cake in this space, although both of these had a massive first mover advantage (at different times).

If something like that were to happen, most of the projects that exist now in the "Linux desktop" space may simply become irrelevant.