Most servers around the world run Linux. The same goes for almost all supercomputers. That’s astonishing in a capitalist world where absolutely everything is commodified. Why can’t these big tech companies manage to sell their own software to server operators or supercomputers? Why is an open, free project that is free for users so superior here?
Amazon’s and Google’s OSes already are Linux variants. The thing that makes Android is the GUI userland, not the underlying system which is just Linux with a libc implementation not by GNU.
And MacOS is a BSD variant, so also Unix-like under the hood. So Microsoft is the only real black sheep in that ecosystem.
Apple stopped using macOS for apple.com a long time ago. They switched to Linux. If Apple don’t use their own OS in a server environment, why would full blown supercomputers?
TIL