Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores

Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by Krustopolis on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @03:20PM (#23158458)

Could you please provide a link to some cases where Microsoft is suing Linux users for violating their patents? I thought they stopped that practice years ago.

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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by yc12340 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @02:04AM (#23163943)

You mean, except for every major Android manufacturer paying exFAT tax?

Microsoft certainly don't sue as much as they used, but that's because they are no longer developing as much groundbreaking tech. And when they do develop something, everyone avoids touching it with ten-foot pole (see also: "success" of UEFI on ARM devices).

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Re:Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percen... by Krustopolis on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:35AM (#23176138)

Microsoft made an official statement almost a year ago that it was OK to use exFAT, and they published the specs as well.

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/08/28/exfat...

I won't argue how groundbreaking their technology is of late, but in all fairness they have been much more open with their code.

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