Re: Horses for courses, the Penguin has no ego
The GNU was the philosophy, Linux was pragmatically licenced under the GPL. It's that pragmatism married to the idealism of the the GPL that has driven a community driven OS into so many hardware platforms, even if it has never received popular success on the user front.
Declaring one size fits all OSs as failed seems a stretch, with GNU/Linux clearly demonstrating it's successful application across so many platform sizes from Super Computer through Mainframe down to phones and embedded. Maybe it's not a perfect fit in all spaces, but it's worked well enough.
The Penguin has no ego (it's users, often do though).
I'm not saying a new OS is a waste of time, but dedicated OSs are limited, both in application and appeal.
Obviously the current options Google has at it's disposal are not up to the future task of slurp and ad flinging the IOT enabled future has in store for us.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
