I wonder what Ballmer thinks, after all he was the one who called Linux a "cancer".
Yes and it's metastasizing.
The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
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Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#12Did the author post this having entirely ignored all of the news and discussion about this last week? This just seems like a seriously tardy "me-too" piece.
There's just no content in that article at all.
Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#13There is a large group of people on the internet who never let the Microsoft of the 90s go. How does every single one of their business decisions get linked to some nefarious goal? The author doesn't even know what it could be, BUT DON'T FORGET! This company tried to patent everything decades ago! Don't forget they're not bringing bash to Windows out of the goodness in their hearts!
I like your approach sometimes. When dealing with people, I find it best to take positive changes in behavior at face value. I'm sure people could hang their past behavior over their head and treat them as though nothing has changed, but that seems sociopathic. Judging people more harshly based on past behavior is a pretty good way to keep yourself from harm, though. If it weren't unfair to others I would consider doing it.
With companies, I have no need to weigh their positive behavior more heavily. No one's feelings are at risk of being hurt; no friendships are on the line. If a company burns me with bad practices, it's safe and prudent to hold their mistakes against them. It should take a very long time for companies to build back goodwill, once lost.
Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#14in other words, just installing cygwin.
Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#15There is a large group of people on the internet who never let the Microsoft of the 90s go. How does every single one of their business decisions get linked to some nefarious goal? The author doesn't even know what it could be, BUT DON'T FORGET! This company tried to patent everything decades ago! Don't forget they're not bringing bash to Windows out of the goodness in their hearts!
Here's an example: http://techrights.org/2016/03/10/charm-offensives-distract/
So, Microsoft signed two deals related to Android/Linux with two companies, the content of those deals are undisclosed.
That's pretty much all the facts we have, and this article is trying to tell us that this is an unequivocal proof of MS racketeering the open source community, seriously?
Did I miss something?
Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#16There is a large group of people on the internet who never let the Microsoft of the 90s go. How does every single one of their business decisions get linked to some nefarious goal? The author doesn't even know what it could be, BUT DON'T FORGET! This company tried to patent everything decades ago! Don't forget they're not bringing bash to Windows out of the goodness in their hearts!
I like your approach sometimes. When dealing with people, I find it best to take positive changes in behavior at face value. I'm sure people could hang their past behavior over their head and treat them as though nothing has changed, but that seems sociopathic. Judging people more harshly based on past behavior is a pretty good way to keep yourself from harm, though. If it weren't unfair to others I would consider do…
well the thing is - Microsoft isn't a person, it's a company - as a general rule it is reasonable to assume that companies don't do anything out of the goodness of their hearts, when you also have a good deal of bad behavior in the past ( and 20 years ago can be the recent past for a company) it might make sense to keep an increase sense of skepticism.
Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's an example: http://techrights.org/2016/03/10/charm-offensives-distract/
So, Microsoft signed two deals related to Android/Linux with two companies, the content of those deals are undisclosed. That's pretty much all the facts we have, and this article is trying to tell us that this is an unequivocal proof of MS racketeering the open source community, seriously? Did I miss something?
How you think you're buying Android, but you're actually still paying for bits of Windows.
That's not fun for a lot of people.
Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#18There is a large group of people on the internet who never let the Microsoft of the 90s go. How does every single one of their business decisions get linked to some nefarious goal? The author doesn't even know what it could be, BUT DON'T FORGET! This company tried to patent everything decades ago! Don't forget they're not bringing bash to Windows out of the goodness in their hearts!
That abomination of a system called win10 came out just a few years ago, not in 90s.
Is spying on everyone and constantly sending telemetry even when disabled (to the extent people actually wrote a tool to go to every corner and forcefully disable it and even then it didn't work) not nefarious?
What are you even talking about here, they haven't changed a slightest bit.
Maybe I want to have updates that cannot be disabled? No, I want my machine to do what I want, not what MS wants.
Maybe I want to know that pic browsing app can't run without UAC (win8, looking at you)? I don't either, I just want to launch it.
They are still pounding that close-minded philosophy just like before. Their reputation is well-deserved.
I'm patiently awaiting another move in EEE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish) direction from them, this time with our last bastion - Linux.
Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#19There is a large group of people on the internet who never let the Microsoft of the 90s go. How does every single one of their business decisions get linked to some nefarious goal? The author doesn't even know what it could be, BUT DON'T FORGET! This company tried to patent everything decades ago! Don't forget they're not bringing bash to Windows out of the goodness in their hearts!
You forgot to use the $ in micro$oft.
I'm waiting for the proprietary extensions to the bash shell that requires you to license your software because it was created with windows bash. MSVCRT.dll ftw
Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's an example: http://techrights.org/2016/03/10/charm-offensives-distract/
So, Microsoft signed two deals related to Android/Linux with two companies, the content of those deals are undisclosed. That's pretty much all the facts we have, and this article is trying to tell us that this is an unequivocal proof of MS racketeering the open source community, seriously? Did I miss something?
Are you suggesting MS has legitimate claims to IP used in android? Patent trolling isn't something new to MS, so why would anyone reasonably assume MS isn't patent trolling in the absence of all the facts when we have plenty of information and historical data to make reasonable presumptions?