How fast will Linux die once Windows goes open source?

how fast will Linux die once Windows goes open source?

>tfw people will begin to uninstall gentoo

The windows source would probably be a colossal fucking mess that noone will want to touch.

>implying the development model is the only issue

>Windows with repos
Linux would die overnight

samefag

Yes, you are right (see picture)

You are also right, but look at google chrome and ungoogled chromium.
Windows and unmicrosoft-unbotnet-ungarbage-windows ? Apart from that fact:

>when Windows goes open source

Kek... even if this was April 1st it'd still be a 1/10 effort

install gentoo

>implying that linux will die

With the source-code in hands, Wine could run windows programs so smoothly that linux will start to come with it natively, letting the transition from windows so much more easily that no one will ever touch any windows version again.

What would happen with ReactOS ?

>open source
Meme that doesn't mean anything. It will not be free as in freedom, meaning that it will still be useless for 90% of people needing a free OS.

>inb4 free software = GPL
Even the BSDs are free software. Microsoft has open source licenses, a bunch of their stuff is open source but you cannot use it freely without paying royalties or having additional licenses.

jesus christ this would be like... like... heaven!

Never. It will only grow bigger once we have an Android like OS for laptops.

WINE would get better and nobody would have a reason to use Windows anymore.

Windows won't go open source. It simply can't, because the source has code from outside of Microsoft, so open sourcing it would probably violate a lot of licenses.

Also, nothing will happen. The freedom-tards will go back to Windows, but making it open source won't suddenly make it better, so people using it for real work will still use Linux.

Best thing to come out of it will be Wine, at best.
If Linux dies as a result, it will be a slow death.
Windows? Yeah, not gonna die.

Usually when people say "Linux", they mean GNU+Linux. Android happens to use a modified Linux kernel, but the OS is extremely different from say, Gentoo or Ubuntu.

On that note, word is that Google intends to merge their Android and ChromeOS platform, so you'll probably get that anyways.

It won't. WINE will make apps work almost natively but people still won't care. Nothing will change, and if it does it will be VERY slowly and VERY gradually and the most people will do with Windows is more advanced ricing. WinMacOS, WinGNOME, WINKDE "distros" will appear with nothing under the hood customized.

Fuck that, the unix way is better.

how fast will Windows die once Wine becomes better thanks to Windows being open source?

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>freetards still think windows would die if it goes open source

Stop ironic shitpost, you're too obvious.

what a fucking retarded question

How come this isn't more popular?

> I-I-ITS NOT FAIR M$ GIVE US YOUR SOURCE CODE OR ELSE WE CAN'T COMPETE
Only free if your time it's worthless

Because it doesn't work
I think the only software it runs reliably is Office 98 and Deux Ex

Which is why the windows kernel and other dependencies in the windows ecosystem need to be rebuilt from the ground up.

The biggest issue with this is M$ no longer employs anyone actually qualified enough to do this, or even a team of developers to do this.


This would require M$ make a MASSIVE public push for talent, promising and offering large salary, and having someone in control who is willing to push back deadlines and get things done correctly as opposed to shipping something that works because we've hit our deadline.

>Wine could run windows programs so smoothly that linux will start to come with it natively
Dear Microsoft, please make this mistake.

None of that, linux autists are afraid of hard work and ROS is the hardest work there is in the world of programming.

Haven't gone through all of that, yet, but do the people at Microsoft have an aversion towards OOP or what is going on?

lmao. you mean the source code they've been slapping together like shit since their inception? You mean the incredibly amateur privilege separations? You mean the hidden NSA backdoors and callbacks? Linsux BTFO!