Will Linux always be open source?
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at
14:49
This is a burning question always at the back of my mind, as experience tells me all good things come to an end.
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Barring Microsoft bribing a judge into declaring the GPL invalid, yes.
Yes, there are way too many distributors of the operating system for it to become closed, the entire purpose of linux is to have the users make it better. Having it not open source would basically make it a worse version of XP/Vista
Yes. It has a huge huge following of millions of people who keep it available as OpenSource & contribute to it constantly (new distros, new apps, etc).
I don’t know. but I bet someone will get mad enough that if it does close they will make a new opensource os.
No doubt.
Always!
even if they pass laws saying it cant be free I will still pass on the OSs that I have stockpiled I would never tolerate such opresion and neither should anyone else. Needless to say they would have a rough time doing it if a person can get a bootleg copy of MS garbage they can for sure pass on things from one country to another that are still open source there
Who has got the authority of making Linux closed source?It is clearly written in the license that everybody has a right to look at the source code,improve it and pass it on without taking any economical benefit.
My question is—Will windows always be closed source?
Linux will remain open source for as long as I can see. Even if its copyright holders decide to release newer versions under a closed license, the present and older versions will remain under their open source license. There is at least one opensource loving programmer who can take up the work of releasing newer versions under open source license. But that is a paranoid case.
As of now, none of the copyright holders will make Linux closed source. There are some 200 odd such copyright holders and all of them coming to a same conclusion that is to make Linux closed source henceforth has a chance of less than one in a googol.
All that for the Linux kernel alone. There are some other things such as GNOME, GCC, Emacs, GDB, Glibc, bash and so on. They will forever remain free/open source softwares.
For the rest, time has to say.