Unless Linux goes bankrupt, I don't understand how it will die. I don't understand how it will go bankrupt either. Time to develop Linux further, is all it takes. It's not working with the typical for profit business model, so the VC stuff doesn't apply. So what if it doesn't achieve world dominance. Those days are over, and the perspective is immature at best to consider that to be a reasonable outcome for anything. What is reasonable however, is that Linux or any other OS, simply becomes a part of a large ecosystem, providing niche solutions for various needs. Most news is nothing but hype. So what. I'm going to be installing Ubuntu on 3 towers in the next couple of days in my condo. One as a dev server, the other two..not sure yet.