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What to say, the headline is rather flamebaitish.

If your opensource project can't live without "life support," it's a failed project. It means nobody wants to keep it alive.

No such prerequisite is for 9 out of 10 software packages you see in any serious software repo.

I now run a graphical Linux desktop with fully functioning graphical UI, all done without a dime of sponsorship money, or corporate life support of any sort.

No "well funded corporation" in the world can pull out making an OS with graphical UI from scratch these days. That's simply beyond even heavyweights like google and apple with their countless battalions of coders.

Now say, who has more power there?

Why it is such a problem for guys making software for web ecosystem if open source desktop community can pull out doing things many many many times more hard and complex?

I myself draw a mental line in between a genuine open source projects, and those which are masquerading as such. In reality, those are failing commercial enterprises trying to earn "coolness cred"




RedHat, Canonical, plus multiple other companies, put money into desktop Linux.




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