Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux
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Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux
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Re: Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux
#2Scary.
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#3There's an enduring belief in the Linux community that the reason the year of the Linux desktop hasn't come about has nothing to do with lack of stable ABI, API, murky processes of app distribution, inaccessible development processes, basic functionality like graphics acceleration or audio being dodgy for decades, but is exclusively due to dastardly machinations of Micro$oft (with a dollar sign of course, as other, trillion dollar tech companies who use Linux, aren't in it for the money).
Please grow up and take a look in the mirror.
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#5There's an enduring belief in the Linux community that the reason the year of the Linux desktop hasn't come about has nothing to do with lack of stable ABI, API, murky processes of app distribution, inaccessible development processes, basic functionality like graphics acceleration or audio being dodgy for decades, but is exclusively due to dastardly machinations of Micro$oft (with a dollar sign of course, as other, t…
The article never mentions Linux on the desktop.
Re: Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux
#6There's an enduring belief in the Linux community that the reason the year of the Linux desktop hasn't come about has nothing to do with lack of stable ABI, API, murky processes of app distribution, inaccessible development processes, basic functionality like graphics acceleration or audio being dodgy for decades, but is exclusively due to dastardly machinations of Micro$oft (with a dollar sign of course, as other, t…
The article never mentions Linux on the desktop.
> The article never mentions Linux on the desktop.
The comment you reply to never claimed that it did.
Why not reflect on the content of the comment and be a part of the discussion instead of .. this?
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#7People have been warning this for a decade and nobody listened.
But I am shocked to know Lennart "Systemd" Poettering is working for Microsoft.
To be fair with Microsoft, they are only following Red Hat's playbook.
Red Hat has been doing this for 3 decades: they pay for conferences, they donate for projects and they hire developers working in such projects.
This was how Red Hat took influence over almost the entire Linux desktop stack: GTK, Gnome, Flatpack, Wayland, Systemd, Pulseaudio and many others fundamental pieces of software have their development process controlled by Red Hat employees.
Microsoft is just following what already worked.
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#8It could also be that open source/free software has become so successful that Microsoft can't avoid bumping up against it anymore. The issue to fear, in my view, is legislation that would potentially eviscerate open source licensing models.
Microsoft, Red Hat, others providing money to open source initiatives is a double edged sword with good and potentially bad side effects.
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#9Why wouldn't they want to control something, that is just a subsystem for Windows? Seems logical to me.
Re: Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux
#10People have been warning this for a decade and nobody listened. But I am shocked to know Lennart "Systemd" Poettering is working for Microsoft. To be fair with Microsoft, they are only following Red Hat's playbook. Red Hat has been doing this for 3 decades: they pay for conferences, they donate for projects and they hire developers working in such projects. This was how Red Hat took influence over almost the entire L…
If you want to be old-school, "M$ystemd"