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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by akdor1154 on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:12AM (#24754021)
This is absolutely possible. It would be (rightly) seen with so much trepidation though: "please trust us we promise we'll never turn evil / back into 90s Microsoft" just wouldn't be enough for a direct core competitor acquisition like this.
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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by criddell on Monday October 12, 2020 @10:34AM (#24754717)
I'm not sure they can. When they sold Xenix to SCO, part of the agreement was that they would never compete in the Unix space.
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Re:Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux by mixmastamyk on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:06PM (#24756614)
Never is a long time, especially with thirty years of hindsight.
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