(28-04-2015, 05:14 AM)bsdkeith Wrote: I see the companies taking more interest & developing parts of the system to be able to control the future direction of Linux. Here I'm thinking of pulseaudio, necessary for using skype, & systemd, being pushed by RedHat. However, I foresee a backlash from hackers, who will rewrite Linux as a new system with a new name. I also feel some users will transfer to the BSDs. Wearable computing will be available & trendy.

That's exactly my view.
I see Linux being more friendly to regular users, but becoming unfriendly to hackers.

I think that, with the uniformization of the Linux environment, the differences between distros will become smaller.

I don't know... I don't use Linux anymore so I don't know what the current trends on distros are.