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He will release X-OS, a fork of Ubuntu, which is half broken, and has Grok integrated in it.
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.
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
Musk has been using x.com since the Mac OS 8 days.
He'd easily have prior rights.
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.
Based off the Ubuntu 24.04 release, which already seems half broken, it's perfect.
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)
AntiX?
You would think but this is what LinuxInsider said about it.
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/