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I can't tell if you're joking or serious. Certainly, Microsoft hosts a lot of Linux VMs in Azure. A lot. The last I heard, Azure was hosting more Ubuntu than

I can't tell if you're joking or serious. Certainly, Microsoft hosts a lot of Linux VMs in Azure. A lot. The last I heard, Azure was hosting more Ubuntu than anything else. I'm going to assume you're serious and agree with you; I wouldn't be at all surprised if Microsoft did end up joining the Linux Foundation. I'll guess within the next 2 years.

nickbauman 11y ago
Na. The only reason why Microsoft is doing this is because they want to remain relevant in a world that has largely stopped relying on closed-source code in a server-side OS. I suspect Microsoft will open source Windows long before it ever joins the Linux Foundation.
- ethomson 11y ago
  Those are unrelated concerns. Microsoft isn't a big homogenous unit. The business unit that would join the Linux Foundation would be Cloud & Enterprise (which does crazy things like open sourcing .NET and joining the Eclipse Foundation). The business unit that would open source Windows is Windows Development Group, who are mostly stuck in neutral. They can barely perform builds of Windows themselves, it's so huge and tangled and poorly organized. They can't change anything because they're crippled with decades of technical debt. Whether they want to or not (and I don't think that they really do want to) to try to open source that monstrosity is quite far away. That said, I'm sure some people within Netscape said the same thing about Mozilla. So I'd love to be proven wrong.