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Discussion on: Fuchsia and the Server: Why I'm Betting on Linux

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Well i was just passing by googling around and thought to stop here for a moment before i get back in car for the groceries i was heading to ... I believe its high time the author and anybody influenced by this article should take the example of Nokia and it being head of Symbian consortium. Nokia basically deprived motorola, sony-ericsson, samsung to acquire 1st level citizenship in Symbian ecosystem. At top of my mind i am recalling that RealPlayer etc 1st level citizenship privileges Nokia kept only for its own superior built of Symbian. So when Android arrived, all three above spat back and jump the boat/gun of this more equality giving religion.
Same is the dilemma with Linux since 80s if i take author's date and time. RedHat broke $1bn revenue mark i guess around 2014. Now it gobbled up everything around leaving other glorious FOSS systems in a Nokia vs others type relationship. SUSE the next best/biggest thing is as clear as sun example. with revenues so meager everyone doubts if it will be ever be able to get a lover or climb itself to even 10% of RedHat's revenues. IBM's takeover of a FOSS champion has own heracies (rest aside what modules they have outsourced to indian callcenters to further develop them). Anyway any big FOSS is under wings of RedHat and inturn IBM (nokia of FOSS). Amazon etc all have ARM cpus ready too and they know their Linux variant dont have much left to acquire from FOSS world. Google knows this desperation and frustration. Thay can also come up with their own ARM asic like every tom, dickle harry and on top they know that better too just like when MS went on to custom design ARM for their custom windows even server and DB or customised (AMD) gpu for xbox or hololens; they totally rocked!!! (though satya has till today left/leaving no chance to ruin MS; 1st kept pidepipering MS behind his chakra-engine, couldnt preempt mediaplayer vs winamp/vlc, backtoback fails of msn-msngr/office-communicator/lync/skype, couldnt keep pushing winCE or buy qnx to help winpho, let python creep over our faces to fang ps, couldnt make ps using most of dos syntaxes). Now back to point; Google working with all ARM vendors over android can dev more adv ARM architecture... the most difficult part is/was what they have already journeyed i.e Fuchsia.. so to circumvent all the above said *nix clutter brewing since 80s (head/man/less/tail/cat/touch/finger/sed) .. Fuchsia running on ARM motherboards (think 100s of flagship smartphone motherboards in a briefcase) basically whole datacenter under ur table in a box is the next big thing and IBM/RedHat/Nokia are nowhere there! Nokia not even needed to be in the slashes here it died along with its arrogance n now is HMD pawning everything it had to more righteous owner; MS.
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I am no fan of google i am just seeing things nokia/symbian way (the last north/south poles flipping disruption).