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    [–] [email protected] 77 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    He will release X-OS, a fork of Ubuntu, which is half broken, and has Grok integrated in it.

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    He'll get sued by Apple for infringing on their OS X trademark, and he'll invent laws claiming he's in the right, and he'll lose billions, and then he'll claim he invented Linux and he's a genius.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

    I kind of want to see this go down. There are a few companies you don't fuck with. Apple is definitely one of them. I am sure their lawyers are just as smart and soulless as Disney's

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    Musk has been using x.com since the Mac OS 8 days.

    He'd easily have prior rights.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    He sold it into PayPal, then bought it back from PayPal a couple years ago.

    Not sure how trademarks work, but I think it gets stickier when it's used for different purposes. like how there's Starcraft trailers and the game.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

    Unfortunately, XOS has already been taken by Infinix, a budget phone brand that primarily sells in Africa, for its own ad-riddled bloated Android skin.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Is it going to be a Ubuntu from though? I can see his engineers coming to him saying we should fork Ubuntu for many very good reasons. Then he does to much ketamine and then tells them to use DistroX, because the X

    (I can't actually tell if DistroX is real. I could only find one reference to it. But hey is that going to stop Musk)

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    You would think but this is what LinuxInsider said about it.

    AntiX Linux: Not Pretty but Highly Functional

    So no way could he use it.

    This is the one reference that I found. I assume that if DistroX ever existed it is long dead.

    https://softiq.io/a-comprehensive-guide-to-linux-distros-the-good-the-bad-and-the-quirky/

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

    Based off the Ubuntu 24.04 release, which already seems half broken, it's perfect.