Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen

Re:Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen by goalieca on Thursday January 29, 2015 @08:05PM (#8969899)

> I work on the team doing Visual Studio's Tools for Apache Cordova.

Ten years ago my head would have imploded reading that. I remember distinctly balmer saying that linux was a cancer.

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Re:Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen by Max_Mustermann on Thursday January 29, 2015 @08:38PM (#8970027)

What were his arguments against Linux? I've never anyone actually speak ill of the concept of GNU/Linux, aside from "cookiness" and so.

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Re:Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen by Matumio on Friday January 30, 2015 @09:11AM (#8972050)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

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Re:Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen by Qwertious on Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:46PM (#8970501)

It's GPL'd, and any GPL'd code "infects" any codebase it's merged with (unlike MIT/Apache license).

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Re:Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen by tormeh on Friday January 30, 2015 @09:16AM (#8972072)

I don't really get why that's important. Just because the kernel is GPL'd doesn't mean the drivers, WM etc. have to be.

That's kinda been my vision for how Linux may succeed on desktops/laptops. The GPL'd Linux kernel with almost everything else closed source. I realize I'm just describing Android.

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Re:Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen by caryhartline on Thursday January 29, 2015 @09:49PM (#8970215)

I think the "cancer" part has to do with the GPL.

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