Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attacked Open Source Before

Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by dTal on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:45AM (#31823880)

>What will it take for you to actually believe that they may genuinely be changing?

Microsoft Office for Linux would be a nice start. Contributions to the WINE project would be even nicer.

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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by cube00 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:52AM (#31823961)

Respecting my default browser choice.

Not forcing me to have a Microsoft account to install my paid copy of Windows 11 Home.

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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by cassianoleal on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @11:01AM (#31824724)

It's possible to do what you want. If the installer has no Internet access, it will give you the option to create a local user.

Very user-hostile but there is a way.

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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by squarefoot on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @10:20AM (#31824238)

Should they do that one day (hopefully never), it would be Office for WSL, that is, not Linux but their Linux with lots of strings attached and technical/legal trapdoors. I also hope they will never be involved in any WINE development: WINE can severely hurt their business and they fear it to the point they created WSL which is and works as its exact opposite: prevent users from running Windows software without Windows by allowing them to run Linux software without Linux.

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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by phendrenad2 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:54PM (#31826217)

When do you want Apple iMovie for Linux? Or are we just picking on Microsoft here?

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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by account42 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:48AM (#31823909)

So would first class support for open cross-platform APIs like OpenGL and Vulkan on Windows and Xbox.

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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by blackoil on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:49AM (#31823924)

Is there enough demand for that?

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Re:Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attac... by dTal on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:55AM (#31823993)

Is there demand for running Windows programs on an ad-free, telemetry-free, and wallet-free platform? I daresay.

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