Microsoft is the only thing keeping proprietary software alive. Once they're gone, it's over. Everyone else has switched to Linux and other forms of OSS.
Why not just kill Microsoft?
Liam Cox
Anthony Stewart
sounds retarded
Jeremiah Parker
Yes, Microsoft is the literal only company in the world in the business of making proprietary software. Nobody else in the entire world is making proprietary software.
Alexander Gomez
Why are you gay?
Asher Cook
>UNIX tshirt
>the literal original proprietary malware catalyst that caused the creation of GNU and the free open source software movement
Nolan Miller
Name a company making most of their money off proprietary software that isn't contained within their fetid software ecosystem.
Jacob Sullivan
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Isaiah Rogers
No one is powerful enough. Majority people dumb as shit in tech and dont even care.
David Nguyen
The cause was Symbolics' shenanigans.
Liam Kelly
Lets fakku
Isaiah Johnson
But how?
Matthew Nguyen
Apple
Google
Ubuntu
Samsung
Sony
Nintendo
Blizzard
Facebook
Gabriel Miller
It'll just move from proprietary software to proprietary services.
Nathan Barnes
You can kill microsoft, but keep x86 alive.
If x86 dies, we will fall into a proprietary shithole we won't be able to climb off from.
Benjamin Baker
>Everyone else has switched to Linux and other forms of OSS
Every point you made is objectively false.
Luke Morgan
1. A lot of companies and users don't really give a shit about the desktop operating system they use so long as it runs the software they need. Similarly, they don't give a fuck about "proprietary vs open source". Microsoft has been entrenched for so long that a lot of businesses keep Windows around solely for compatibility purposes.
2. Microsoft markets their shit like mad, makes sure they're the defacto OEM install on every desktop computer, worms their way into every government and business decision on what OS to use, and ultimately does everything in their power to ensure that people are locked into their products and ecosystem. They make more money from MS Office than they do from Windows, and this is also precisely why they were trying so hard to give Windows 10 away for free.
There's a reason why every other realm of computing that's been spared from Microsoft's tendrils (server, mobile, IoT, etc.) has desperately wretched away from their horrid software and vendor lock-in bullshit, and why companies like Valve are trying to hard to escape from the grasp of Microsoft on the desktop space.
Lincoln Phillips
>free open source software movement
You are conflating two different movements with different goals.
Juan Cooper
who says i'm gay?
Jayden Jenkins
Linux derived systems are the predominate form of operating system in every other computing space apart from the desktop, which is OP's point. The chart you posted comes from a service that measures page hits.
Jacob Johnson
X86 is proprietary and owned by jewtel
David Parker
>every country only has one color, giving the impression of a 100% userbase instead of 50.0000001%
What a shitty image.
David Hernandez
Yes, but it comes with a compromise that no other platform have, that is being tied to the ancient standard of the IBM PC, a standard with very known and open registers and memory addresses and an unsigned way to boot OSes.
ARM, Mips, RiscV, none of em have such thing, and who manufacture those chips don't have a slightest obligation to make a platform where you can boot your custom shit.
Carter Jenkins
>Blizzard
Microsoftcock suckers. Every other company listed makes OSS.