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Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member

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Re: Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member

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Post by forgottenpass »

The new game is to use as much open source as possible to build a closed source ecosystem with vendor lock-in.

Microsoft was late to the game, but we gotta give them props for contributing back something more useful than "open core", platform onboarding or "hire me" piles of code.

Re: Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member

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Post by blackaspen »

I guess the other thread was the one that became the dupe:

I'm fairly certain all of 2016 is a mass-hallucination. Or something. In all seriousness though, I don't think this is surprising. Visual Studio on macOS is more surprising to me. Azure runs on Linux and that's a really, really big business for Microsoft. And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows. Rock on Microsoft, rock on.

Re: Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member

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Post by ekianjo »

blackaspen wrote: post #13

I guess the other thread was the one that became the dupe: I'm fairly certain all of 2016 is a mass-hallucination. Or something. In all seriousness though, I don't think this is surprising. Visual Studio on macOS is more surprising to me. Azure runs on Linux and that's a really, really big business for Microsoft. And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows. Rock on Microsoft, rock on.

If they could contribute to WINE that would be most welcome.

Re: Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member

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Post by rufius »

blackaspen wrote: post #13

I guess the other thread was the one that became the dupe: I'm fairly certain all of 2016 is a mass-hallucination. Or something. In all seriousness though, I don't think this is surprising. Visual Studio on macOS is more surprising to me. Azure runs on Linux and that's a really, really big business for Microsoft. And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows. Rock on Microsoft, rock on.

Azure runs on Linux? What? Small portions do, but it's misleading to say it "runs on Linux".

Edit: clarifying

Re: Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member

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Post by blackaspen »

rufius wrote: post #15
blackaspen wrote: post #13

I guess the other thread was the one that became the dupe: I'm fairly certain all of 2016 is a mass-hallucination. Or something. In all seriousness though, I don't think this is surprising. Visual Studio on macOS is more surprising to me. Azure runs on Linux and that's a really, really big business for Microsoft. And they've also built a Linux Subsystem into Windows. Rock on Microsoft, rock on.

Azure runs on Linux? What? Small portions do, but it's misleading to say it "runs on Linux". Edit: clarifying

Sarcasm? I imagine that they're not emulating the Linux Kernel on Windows... From what I've gathered from job postings and whatnot, their virtualization system is in line with AWS's (Xen) on Linux.

Re: Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member

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Post by bomdo »

Apparently, being a platinum member entails donating $500k [1], so it's not that big a deal for Microsoft ($85B revenue[2]). And as the article states, there has been negativity in the linux community regarding the old arch-enemy joining their ranks. Looking at the new Microsoft however, I think it's fair to assume that the days of "embrace, extend and extinguish"[3] are over and they are genuinely interested in cooperation.

It's an important political gesture that Nadella goes in this direction. Since they also added a linux subsystem into the latest Windows release[4], I get the impression that he wants to leave the cloud to linux and try to position Windows as a user-facing client. This is a difficult decision to make, but it makes sense. Microsoft without Ballmer is seeing its position in the Corporate world as it is and I hope we will continue to see more openness as a result.

[1] http://www.slashgear.com/hp-pays-500000-for-linux-foundation...

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2016-Q4...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12234735

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