Linux and Main: Analysis: The Battle Lines are Drawn

“It could well become bloody, to the extent that the
participants continue to receive transfusions from big donors. The
Linux distribution war, limited previously to small skirmishes here
and there, has been declared.

“And it has little or nothing to do with Linux, which is just
the battlefield for bigger players…

“The casual observer could be forgiven for supposing that the
battle is over distributional supremacy, though the casual observer
would be wrong. The distributions are, in this conflict, merely
cannon fodder. The war is over dominance in databases for the Linux
platform…”

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