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Re:This isn't your father's Microsoft by leereeves on Saturday November 09, 2019 @02:56AM (#21490265)
Not extinguishing perhaps, but appropriating and building upon Linux for their own benefit without giving much back is certainly possible. Google's already done it with Android.
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Re:This isn't your father's Microsoft by Tossrock on Saturday November 09, 2019 @03:08AM (#21490299)
Quite a lot of Google-developed code goes back into the Linux kernel. Look at cgroups - the entire containerization revolution sprung from code Google gave back to Linux.
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Re:This isn't your father's Microsoft by leereeves on Saturday November 09, 2019 @05:31AM (#21490703)
Did that come out of Android? Google uses Linux itself as a desktop OS too.

Android hasn't led to anything like a mobile Linux. Google took Linux, built Android on top of it, and now owns the mobile space. Apple did something similar using FreeBSD inside OS X.

Microsoft could use Linux in the same way.

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