with proprietary solutions. In fact, technology has been driven by proprietary solutions and then someone figures out they can port Linux to run on the device. This is the only way Linux ever gets a foothold on any devices.
Linux will remain a niche OS forever. And it is never used by any player without some type of proprietary additions. Even the biggest open source proponents develop their own proprietary software to use in conjunction with open source.
Open source is nothing more than an alternate solution to proprietary that will have some type of proprietary software added to it to make it serve it purpose. There are no pure open source solutions out there.
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