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What would they gain though? NT is a pretty good kernel with very broad hardware support. If anything, they'd just make NT fully POSIX-compliant. They'd get th
by PeCaN 11y ago
What would they gain though? NT is a pretty good kernel with very broad hardware support.
If anything, they'd just make NT fully POSIX-compliant. They'd get the same benefit with a fraction of the effort of porting Windows-the-GUI to Linux.
- yazaddaruvala 11y ago> What would they gain? Long term deprecation of their work force? Reduction in operating costs? Why pay people to support / extend a kernel / hardware drivers when Linus will do it for free?
- asveikau 11y ago> If anything, they'd just make NT fully POSIX-compliant. They did this with the POSIX subsystem, and the ability to do this was in mind very early in NT history. They ripped it out in Windows 8, IIRC. I guess it's back.