开源让挑战者得以与占据主导地位的在位企业竞争,并遏制垄断力量,Linux打破微软Windows垄断、Android在iPhone能够主导市场之前打开智能手机市场,都是例证。

Linux和Android等历史案例表明,开源起到了均衡器的作用,防止任何一家公司垄断某个市场。 ✦ AI 生成 · 平台预翻

Kevin Xu (Interconnected, co-author) · Interconnects · 2026-06-19 · English original →

“Linux这一如今支撑着全球超过90%云计算基础设施的开源操作系统,曾是Windows垄断的解药(以至于微软前CEO Steve Ballmer称Linux为‘癌症’)。Android这一开源移动系统,则在苹果iPhone能够掌控市场之前,孕育出了一长串具有竞争力的智能手机。”

Linux, the open source operating system that now runs more than 90% of the world's cloud computing infrastructure, was the antidote to the Windows monopoly (so much so that former Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, called Linux "cancer"). Android, the open source mobile system, fostered a long string of competitive smartphones before Apple's iPhone could control the market.

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