Microsoft Is Now 'Open by Default', Says Xamarin Founder Miguel de Icaza

Re:Microsoft Is Now 'Open by Default', Says Xamarin Founder ... by benologist on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @12:27PM (#12902127)

Google builds two of the perhaps most popular desktop linux's ... Android and Chrome OS.

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Re:Microsoft Is Now 'Open by Default', Says Xamarin Founder ... by adrianlmm on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @01:09PM (#12902515)

And MS has the Linux Subsystem in Windows to run Ubuntu Linux binaries and is open source, so?

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Re:Microsoft Is Now 'Open by Default', Says Xamarin Founder ... by pritambaral on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @02:48PM (#12903367)

The Linux Subsystem in Windows is NOT open source. So what if they can run Ubuntu? So can VirtualBox!

And yes, I know the difference between virtualization and syscall emulation.

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Re:Microsoft Is Now 'Open by Default', Says Xamarin Founder ... by adrianlmm on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @03:08PM (#12903500)

You are right, is not open source (yet), but you still can tun Linux binaries.

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Re:Microsoft Is Now 'Open by Default', Says Xamarin Founder ... by pritambaral on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @04:36PM (#12904152)

> (yet)

You seem hopeful of a thing few people are hopeful of.

> you still can tun[sic] Linux binaries

That does not make a platform open.

Also note that you can't run all Linux binaries. In this respect, my original comparison with VirtualBox gets even better, since with VirtualBox I can run whatever edition of Linux I want, with graphics and total, absolute control, and a faster filesystem.

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