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It's a pity that promising projects like Elementary OS collapse due to economic issues. Clearly this would not have happened if they had been able to implement a sustainable business model, but are they going to be able to compete head to head with Microsoft and Apple in the field of operating systems?
I mean, Windows not only has a monopoly, but also has the backing of many other US companies that boycott the GNU/Linux community (Nvidia, Adobe...). It's a shame that this has happened, and I hope that at least someone will take over Elementary OS so that the same thing that happened to Antergos doesn't happen to it :(