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GNU/Linux Growing in Asia
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THE GNU/Linux operating system is turning 40 later this year, assuming we started counting or started the clock in 1983. Back then a 30-year-old Richard Stallman (yes, he's turning 70 on March 16th) started the vision of a freedom-respecting operating system. He had already made his emacs and various other programs.
"The world is changing. Microsoft isn't keeping up."The video above speaks about my early years with GNU/Linux (as a young scientist) and explains that it has found growing exposure in two countries that have about 3 billion people in them. When it comes to GNU/Linux adoption, China was always behind India, but it is catching up while Microsoft lays off many workers and Windows loses market share. As per this page, this month Android is up to 45% of all market share, whereas Windows is down to 27% this month. The funny thing is that Microsoft Edge market share -- just like Bing's market share -- fell by about 5% this month, in spite of all the media SPAM from Microsoft, sprinkling "HEY HI" (AI) pixie dust over everything, including Edge and Azure (now they say the same about Teams and Office). This helps distract from Edge staff being laid off and Bing staff being laid off. Azure too has many layoffs (for several years already). "HEY HI" (AI) is the new clown computing, i.e. misleading hype.
The world is changing. Microsoft isn't keeping up. Buying GitHub was buying debt and perpetual losses (in an effort to control the competition and attack copyleft-based licences). Now, amid a class action lawsuit, all the offices are being disbanded. ⬆