Can we trust Microsoft with open source?

Re:Can we trust Microsoft with open source? by pjmlp on Saturday October 23, 2021 @04:29PM (#28971946)

Specially anything X-Windows related, pure easy. /s

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Re:Can we trust Microsoft with open source? by watermelon0 on Saturday October 23, 2021 @05:21PM (#28972409)

I think Windows/WSL2 might just be the most user friendly Linux distribution, and this includes graphics support, if you are on Win 11.

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Re:Can we trust Microsoft with open source? by pjmlp on Saturday October 23, 2021 @05:38PM (#28972585)

For people like myself, that care mostly about UNIX/POSIX than Linux in particular, had Microsoft been serious about the NT POSIX subsystem, most likely Linux wouldn't have taken off as it did.

I still think macOS is the most user friendly UNIX, though.

As for WSL, I really don't care about it, I have been using VMWare with Linux distributions for about 10 years now.

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Re:Can we trust Microsoft with open source? by topkai22 on Saturday October 23, 2021 @06:19PM (#28972933)

I’ll disagree with you- Linux very much took off because it’s license is cost free and there was/is an influential FLOSS software philosophical movement.

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Re:Can we trust Microsoft with open source? by pjmlp on Sunday October 24, 2021 @05:24AM (#28976215)

Sure that is why people buy macs instead of supporting Linux OEMs, and are everywhere to be seen at FOSDEM.

Where are those philosophers?

I would like to know where would Linux be without Intel, Compaq, IBM and Oracle's money that started being pumped around 2000.

Even Wikipedia mentions it.

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