[who_would_fardels_bear]

There is only one Windows OS. There is only one Mac OS.

There are evidently now dozens of Linux OSes.

I think this is one of the problems.

[JamesP81]

“There is only one Windows OS. There is only one Mac OS.

There are evidently now dozens of Linux OSes.

I think this is one of the problems. “

It’s a huge problem. If you’re a big developer, are you going to sink a few million dollars and a development cycle on a top shelf commercial software product only to have it incompatible with your target platform in 3 months because the open source mafia decided to change something?

Here’s a hint: Apple’s desktop OS and Android phones are both based on POSIX OSes and are both popular products (Apple is based on BSD, Android on Linux). The reason it works is because Apple and Google created standards and then ***enforced them***. A dev can write software for Android and be reasonably assured his product will run on most Android platform devices. Same for Apple OS. This cannot be said for Linux. This will never be true of Linux in general until a similar set of standards are made and enforced, and the open source guys aren’t going to allow that.