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Re: Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance

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Post by chillacy »

yellowapple wrote: post #349
chillacy wrote: post #344

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wasn't being crisp in my definitions, I'm using Linux to refer to the OS on desktop. My bad for any confusion.

No worries. It's worth clarifying specifically because of how many user-facing software stacks are indeed built on top of Linux. Still, I feel like the only reason the Year of the Linux Desktop hasn't "arrived" is because we keep moving the goalposts on what "Linux Desktop" means (and/or maintain an unnecessarily strict definition of it), probably because we do mean "GNU Desktop" or "GNOME Desktop" or "KDE Desktop" o…

It hadn't crossed my mind when I wrote the post because I was in a thread about Windows (so in my mind it was desktop Windows vs a "linux distro" like Ubuntu, Cent, Debian, etc).

But I suppose ChromeOS should count too since it runs on laptops and desktop computers.

Of course Linux (the kernel) is much more dominant on mobile because of Android. But then again Android is indirectly supported by Google ad revenue and so would contradict the original claim in the thread I'm responding to:

> Linux seems to be doing just fine keeping software maintained without ads or harvesting data.

Re: Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance

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TheIronYuppie wrote: post #223
AJ007 wrote: post #160

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What people want to hear is there is none, and there never will be. Even that isn’t enough, but at least there is some legal recourse.

Can you say more? Like there is none what? If there are any changes to this doc - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/gd... - you would be able to check that immediately, and we would never change our data collection policy without changing that document... It's the law! Disclosure: I work at Azure on machine learning but not VS Code

"We specifically make the UE4 EULA apply perpetually so that when you obtain a version under a given EULA, you can stay on that version and operate under that EULA forever if you choose." https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/108340919447950541...
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