The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
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The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
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Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#2How is it the truth if the author specifically mentions that he his speculating?
Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#3I wonder what Ballmer thinks, after all he was the one who called Linux a "cancer".
Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#4I wonder what Ballmer thinks, after all he was the one who called Linux a "cancer".
It may well be a cancer buts it's won the battle. Better to accept the mutation to the business model while you still can before the cancer kills it
Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#5Did 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.
Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#6A possible reason for bringing MSSQL to Linux that was not mentioned in TFA at all: customers requesting it.
Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#7The author quoted Shuttleworth:
> The native availability of a full Ubuntu environment on Windows, without virtualization or emulation, is a milestone that defies convention and a gateway to fascinatingly unfamiliar territory.
"Ubuntu environment" is the key there. Microsoft doesn't need "Linux" unless they're planning on replacing their own kernel with it. Microsoft here is depending on the software running atop of the kernel: in this case, the GNU operating system---which is more than just a set of GNU programs[0]---which brings all of this software together.
Granted, all the talk has been primarily about GNU Bash and other GNU software.[1]
Yes, they're running software compiled for the kernel Linux by providing translating system calls; they could also do that for any other kernel that hackers want to compile their software for, should it become immensely popular. But the rest of the Unix stuff is separate.
Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#8The author quoted Shuttleworth: > The native availability of a full Ubuntu environment on Windows, without virtualization or emulation, is a milestone that defies convention and a gateway to fascinatingly unfamiliar territory. "Ubuntu environment" is the key there. Microsoft doesn't need "Linux" unless they're planning on replacing their own kernel with it. Microsoft here is depending on the software running atop of…
If we end up with fully comatible gnu/linux and gnu/windows, that's still awesome, maybe even better than ending up with only linux variants.
Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#9There 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!
Re: The truth comes out: Microsoft needs Linux
#10There 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: