The main systemd guy, Lennart Poettering, recently left Red Hat to go work for Microsoft. Hmm...

Oh I didn't realize that. Maybe similar teeth, different dragon. I'm cautious about Microsoft, but recently I'd have to say they've been a more reasonable Linux community member - though if there are fewer larger balancing orgs - who knows.

> about Microsoft, but recently I'd have to say they've been a reasonable Linux community member

All it takes is to look around at what Microsoft is doing to gestures vaguely to see the writing on the wall for how Microsoft sees Linux.

Advertisements on the home screen? Advertisements on the every screen? Login darkpatterns? Configuration resets on updates? Forceful browser choices? Forced updates? UEFI shenanigans? Boot manager shenanigans?

Yup, the windows OS (as opposed to Linux) is where they have no counterbalancing reason to not pursue darker patterns. So it's a window into unchecked tendencies.

It looks like....Android.

As proven by OEM distributions on by gone netbooks, and Android flavours, OEMs will always do what they do best.

In what concerns Windows, unfortunately it appears only Azure, Office and XBox matter now.

Or you know, Microsoft is a giga-company with no singular goal (besides increasing revenue). Improving and “destroying” linux may be simultaneously goals to separate areas of the same company, and due to bureaucracy I really can’t take this conteos seriously.

>but recently I'd have to say they've been a reasonable Linux community member

LOL

Its amazing how easy it is. I guess if you spend your entire history being a shitty company and then spend a couple of years pretending to be marginally less shitty then you can dupe a bunch of people.

Being now run increasingly more and more by IBM mothership I guess systemd may become a very profitable cow to fatten for them.

How though? How will they make money off it?

I do think they had commercial aspirations work systemd, but more about "being the company that invented..." Than a direct cash cow.

This is in contrast to the play canonical makes with snaps that has 30% app store tax written all over it.

The oracle pattern of making it more complicated = more support costs/more consulting/more profit

That’s just baseless fearmongering conteo. Like, I honestly you think that is a feasible financial strategy?!

Oracle lives very well with basically extorting their customers...