Microsoft is a Linux and open source company

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Get over it: Microsoft is a Linux and open source company these days

They also realized that open source was better than any number of developers they could get to live in Redmond, Washington."The ability of the OSS process to collect and harness the collective IQ of thousands of individuals across the Internet is simply amazing. More importantly, OSS evangelization scales with the size of the Internet much faster than our own evangelization efforts appear to scale.

Microsoft's answer?"OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the market." For Microsoft, this was a tried-and-true method of squashing its enemies. You know it best from the phrase Paul Maritz, then Microsoft's executive vice president of the Platforms Strategy and Developer Group, used in 1998 to describe Microsoft'sBut pay attention, folks. The most recent of those stories is ten years old. Maritz left in 2000. Gates stopped doing day-to-day work at Microsoft in 2008. In 2021, the billionaire wasMicrosoft's board for having an affair with an employee.

Embrace, extend, extinguish also failed against the open source method, and – this is the important bit – Microsoft knows it.

 

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Not according to sfc.

Then why can't they stop using an escape character too separate directory names. Their directory separator is so backward

El Reg. you’ve lost it mate

Yeah.. Just shut up! 😂

Didn't read the article yet but I'll say, not until I can make install my own ntoskrnl.

Fvck Microsoft 😝

Did you not post an article about Lenovo Secured-core PCs could not boot Linux out of the box with the quote 'it is a Microsoft requirement for the 3rd Party Certificate to be disabled by default,' or am I misremembering misremembering

They just hired Lennart Poettering of systemd and pulseaudio fame. So the Extend phase seems to be getting started.

are you drunk?

Suuuuuureeeeeee....

Yeah they have really embraced the Linux community, in fact you could even say their contributions have extended it! Very excited to see what comes next.

riiiight those peanuts they gave to the gnome devs was toootaly them being altruistic it wasn’t the fact that their devs are only allowed to use gnome also what about github copilot

Good joke 👍

Btw, have they ever paid a dime to Torvalds?

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