Re:Android Killed Windows Phone, Not Apple
by beagle3 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @05:13AM
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The fonts were not 'literally ripped'. The license could have stipulated "you must not ever use this on anything other than Microsoft Windows", but they didn't. They did not make it easy to put in linux distributions, but they did make it possible.
VSCode is indeed part of their cloud strategy. I do not for a moment claim that they did anything benevolent for linux desktop experience -- nor do I expect them to do anything especially for Linux (on the contrary, I expect them to try to kill it).
And still, all I objected was to your use of the word "ever", since VSCode is actually packaged for the linux desktop, and is, IMHO, at the moment the best IDE on linux for quite a few languages.
VSCode is indeed part of their cloud strategy. I do not for a moment claim that they did anything benevolent for linux desktop experience -- nor do I expect them to do anything especially for Linux (on the contrary, I expect them to try to kill it).
And still, all I objected was to your use of the word "ever", since VSCode is actually packaged for the linux desktop, and is, IMHO, at the moment the best IDE on linux for quite a few languages.