Google seems to be putting a lot of resources into their new Fuchsia OS, which though open source, is still completely managed by Google. It also has the drawback of not being under copyleft licenses like GPL, which means other companies can just take it and make proprietary forks.
People who have followed the Fuchsia project, do you see it eventually becoming a significant enough competitor to Linux to be a threat to it, and therefore giving Google even more control of the software world?
Nope, because we know what happens with Apple and their ecosystem. If everyone use Fuchsia OS and Google decide to restrict the licensing after you invested so much resources and money into it, you’re shit out of luck. Linux will always have a place and simply because it’s run by saner people rather than insane/psychopathic corporation called Google.