Just curious, how's Microsoft's bogus Linux patents racket doing these days?
Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
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Re: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
#32Still cannot understand the IoT mentality. It is actually the CoT Communication of Things. Internet shouldn't be required to turn your lights on or off nor be the device communication backbone in an industrial enviornment. Internet should always be the last resort for communicating because of the distance.
The full acronym is IOTWSNBCTTI, or Internet Of Things Which Should Not Be Connected To The Internet.
Re: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
#33Microsoft has a lot of great engineers that have no religious bias against Linux. This was strictly a Bill Gates/Steve Ballmer thing. The smartest thing Nadella did was get rid of the Windows religion aspect to their work and let their engineers do the best thing, and not be afraid of Linux.
where is the office suite for Linux then?
I think that's a pure business decision, they have Office for Android and iOS. Office for Linux might not make that much sense given the low market share on client - but Office 365 has most as WebApps anyway also.
Re: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
#34Microsoft has a lot of great engineers that have no religious bias against Linux. This was strictly a Bill Gates/Steve Ballmer thing. The smartest thing Nadella did was get rid of the Windows religion aspect to their work and let their engineers do the best thing, and not be afraid of Linux.
where is the office suite for Linux then?
I doubt that has much to do with "religion"; they simply don't think a Linux version of Office will bring in enough revenue to be worth the development and support costs... and I probably wouldn't disagree with that assessment.
Linux has large (majority?) market share in the server and IoT markets, but a very tiny market share when it comes to desktop.
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#35After seeing this I think the Amazon AWS/FreeRTOS combo is looking like the better architecture for a node solution. FreeRTOS can run on lowly M3s at 120Mhz, like the LPC2478.
A 500MHz A7 part is way too much silicon for an IoT node. How much external SDRAM and Flash are connected to that MediaTek core?
Re: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
#36Microsoft has a lot of great engineers that have no religious bias against Linux. This was strictly a Bill Gates/Steve Ballmer thing. The smartest thing Nadella did was get rid of the Windows religion aspect to their work and let their engineers do the best thing, and not be afraid of Linux.
where is the office suite for Linux then?
Office 365 is supposed to be the cross-platform, run-anywhere, version of Office.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't monitor you or turn your light switch into a "service" that involves reoccurring payments if we don't use the internet to connect.... /s
And you also can't get a security update when someone figures out how to turn your lightbulbs into a botnet.
Botnets are so passé. Nowadays, everything pwned is mining! Now your lightbulb will produce as much heat as it did back when it was incandescent!
Re: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
#38Just curious, how's Microsoft's bogus Linux patents racket doing these days?
I think they've moved on from shaking down companies and customers that use Linux to shaking down companies that use Android.
SEP 20, 2011 Casio agrees to pay Microsoft an undisclosed sum for a deal that includes Microsoft's vow not to sue Casio's customers for using its Linux devices
Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith and licensing chief Horacio Gutierrez sat down with Fortune recently to map out their strategy for getting FOSS users to pay royalties. Revealing the precise figure for the first time, they state that FOSS infringes on no fewer than 235 Microsoft patents.
It's a breathtaking number. (By comparison, for instance, Verizon's (Charts, Fortune 500) patent suit against Vonage (Charts), which now threatens to bankrupt the latter, was based on just seven patents, of which only three were found to be infringing.) "This is not a case of some accidental, unknowing infringement," Gutierrez asserts. "There is an overwhelming number of patents being infringed."
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#39Re: Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service
#40Am I paraphrasing this correctly: > Microsoft-branded ARM microcontrollers running an embedded linux distribution. Microsoft rolls out security updates over Azure to reduce the risk of the device becoming part of a botnet. It sounds great.
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