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Re:What does Microsoft want with Linux and Open Source? [video] by kar1181 on Monday July 13, 2020 @04:41AM (#23818556)
They want developers. OSX gave us Unix AND a sane desktop.

Ultimately MS over between 2010-2020 lost developer mindshare and they weren't going to get it back. So pivot time and now we have Linux all the things.

Once they have developers back..., well, who knows what they'll start doing then.

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Re:What does Microsoft want with Linux and Open Source? [video] by tonyedgecombe on Monday July 13, 2020 @05:00AM (#23818693)
It's a little like politics isn't it. The best you can hope for is that their interests happen to align with yours. If they do then great but don't be surprised when they don't.
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