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But in all honesty, let's do a bit of math:
Microsoft makes $70 billion per year from Azure, and 40% of Azure servers are on Linux. That seems to imply $30 billion come from Linux hosting. And these are the guys who make Windows. When your rival makes 30/200ths of their total yearly revenue just hosting YOUR servers for people, I'd say you're not going anywhere any time soon.
Also, Amazon EC2 is currently at half a million active Red Hat servers. Which bring in about $10 billion in revenue for Amazon.
And that's just two companies. When the revenue generated by services built on top of GNU's projects dip below $1 billion worldwide, I'll lend an ear to someone telling me they are dying.
But using money as a proxy for activity, $40 billion dollars (at the very least, and across only two companies) all say GNU is bustling.