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Originally Posted by HarryT
Failures such as Windows, for example, against the rampant success of Linux?  |
Windows is not a closed system. Only the source code is, but you can use it with software from many sources. I mean walled garden systems such as iOS. It became very big because at the time it was the only one of it's kind, but it's sagging under the sheer weight of the choice of Android. Eventually, this will happen with Kindle too. In the end, there will be just too much epub.
Unix was there, long before Windows. And yes, Unix, or it's cousin Linux will be here after Windows is utterly gone. You may not know, but Windows is big only on desktops and laptops. *Everything else*, from embedded systems to phones to supercomputers, basically runs a Unix-like system such as Linux, a free Unix descendant such as FreeBSD, or a paid version of Unix such as AIX. All the rest (Windows servers) are just exceptions by comparison.
Heck, even OSX is Unix-based, but if they make it closed like the iPhone, it will eventually die. They tried it before, and almost died in 1997.