richmondez

Only difference is lack of updates for security and latest android, turns phones into ewaste long before the end of the hardware useful life.

Still got the onerous signing procedure that still makes devs pay a tithe to Apple like in other markets I assume?

Installing?

That in itself might act to make linux attractive as it can be a much lighter weight alternative to windows to stretch the useful life of hardware they own.

In my experience neither of those are true, on linux unless a dependency was dropped a 4 year old program will still probably work fine and a 20 year old program on windows will likely have some glitches which may or may not be problematic.

When I dual booted it was to try and get away from the win.

Worse, unless you have the source code to that 70 year old software it’s probably even less useful.

No, copyright applies specifically to the code, eulas and copyleft such as GPL rely on that fact. The logic itself can’t be, but the specific implementation can. It’s why clean room reverse engineering is fine, but a tainted decompilation direct from a binary may not be.

Except that isn’t what we have, we still have proprietary crap that is just open core now and that open core is dominated by a single corp that can dictate what standards it wants just like when IE was on top.

Less diversity isn’t good, the argument wasn’t in favour of proprietary software, it was against platform monoculture.

It’s more complicated than that as control acts as a barrier to entry preventing competitive start ups entering the market and disrupting it so established players probably don’t care as they can bare the cost of compliance if they have to.

Worse is that it likely won’t be able to distinguish between intentionally titilating material and material intended to educate. Only over 18 are allowed to learn about human physiology after submitting identifying information.