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When I came across this thread on here: https://linux.org/threads/firefox-lost-almost-50-million-users-here’s-why-it-is-concerning.35948/page-2, I said Big Tech's controversies are digging it's own grave. That made me think about what needs to be put into place so we can transition from a world with Big Tech to a world without it. Yes, organizations like the FSF have been campaigning for more people to use libre software (and I call it that to clear up the confusion between free speech and free beer). There are a number of libre software projects that have gotten commercialized. There have been forks of software that have been going downhill, such as UnGoogled Chromium. While those are all good examples of how strong the libre software movement has become over the years, I think there are some other goals we could complete to make this a smoother transition.
One thing I've suggested recently was creating a software cooperative where each Linux distro would be it's own OS. While that fixes some of the problems Linux has, I also think there should be other software cooperatives that act as competitors to Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. That way, one bad apple (no pun intended) doesn't spoil the bunch, especially if each competitor only acts as a distributor of each software. The best way they can do that is to use the software of those companies against them (so-to-speak). Because ReactOS uses the Windows NT kernel, I previously mentioned in another thread that I'd hire a software developer to clean room a modern Windows OS, modify the source code of ReactOS so it mimics Windows, and put an original kernel in it. For anyone who would want to create a competitor to Apple or Google, they too can clean room the respective operating systems, fork FreeBSD (which OSX is based on) to have it mimic OSX and iOS, or Chromium to mimic Chrome, and put their own kernels in them. After those operating systems and their respective software become popular, hopefully that will be the end of Microsoft, Apple, and Google (which, IMO, are the 3 Stooges). While Amazon, Samsung, and Facebook are also considered Big Tech, I'm not too concerned about them because their controversies are digging their graves as well, and they have competitors already. Because Adobe falls under this category, it wouldn't hurt to create a libre software suite to compete with it. I'm not sure how good LibreOffice is compared to Microsoft Office, but if it's lacking in some areas, we can deploy improvements to it and make it just as good, if not better. Because LibreWolf is a spiritual successor to FireFox, and Mozilla has gotten into controversies, we can fork the rest of their software as well (if it hasn't been already).
One thing I've suggested recently was creating a software cooperative where each Linux distro would be it's own OS. While that fixes some of the problems Linux has, I also think there should be other software cooperatives that act as competitors to Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. That way, one bad apple (no pun intended) doesn't spoil the bunch, especially if each competitor only acts as a distributor of each software. The best way they can do that is to use the software of those companies against them (so-to-speak). Because ReactOS uses the Windows NT kernel, I previously mentioned in another thread that I'd hire a software developer to clean room a modern Windows OS, modify the source code of ReactOS so it mimics Windows, and put an original kernel in it. For anyone who would want to create a competitor to Apple or Google, they too can clean room the respective operating systems, fork FreeBSD (which OSX is based on) to have it mimic OSX and iOS, or Chromium to mimic Chrome, and put their own kernels in them. After those operating systems and their respective software become popular, hopefully that will be the end of Microsoft, Apple, and Google (which, IMO, are the 3 Stooges). While Amazon, Samsung, and Facebook are also considered Big Tech, I'm not too concerned about them because their controversies are digging their graves as well, and they have competitors already. Because Adobe falls under this category, it wouldn't hurt to create a libre software suite to compete with it. I'm not sure how good LibreOffice is compared to Microsoft Office, but if it's lacking in some areas, we can deploy improvements to it and make it just as good, if not better. Because LibreWolf is a spiritual successor to FireFox, and Mozilla has gotten into controversies, we can fork the rest of their software as well (if it hasn't been already).
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