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Re:Microsoft buys Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising business by syshum on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @08:01PM (#29732237)
The whataboutism on Google is not really even worth responding to but pointing on another evil company is also abusing open source .... ok. Google has been openly hostile GPL for decades.

As to the other 2 projects, I am not sure how this refutes my statements, which is Microsoft linux contributions are about making their commercial offerings better, and are not useful to anyone outside of those Commercial Offering (Azure and WSL)

So how does pointing to Azure RTOS, and Azure Sphere refute that claim?

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Re:Microsoft buys Xandr, AT&T’s advanced advertising business by pjmlp on Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:36AM (#29734252)
It doesn't refute the claim, only extends the space of non-Windows offerings from Microsoft.

The point about Google is that is already did to Linux what you are telling about Microsoft.

Google has crossed the Linux EEE finish line years ago, in fact the Linux kernel is the only GPL thing left on Android and ChromeOS.

As someone that was mostly a UNIX user I mostly don't care in what shape POSIX offerings end up in the market.

Linux today, XYZ tomorrow, whatever.

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