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Heh, Torvalds must be popping a cold one as clearly his victory condition has been fulfilled. > If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won
by digi_owl 10y ago
Heh, Torvalds must be popping a cold one as clearly his victory condition has been fulfilled.
> If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
- Scuds 10y agoGiven the licencing of an enterprise installation of MSSQLServer, I'd say 'winning' is a relative term.
- aNoob7000 10y agoI'm not sure if I'm misinterpreting your comment but paying for software is not bad, even if the software is expensive. I'd say the simple fact that an enterprise Microsoft product is running natively on Linux is a pretty big win. I guess hell has frozen over.
- AsyncAwait 10y agoI think he already did a while ago[1], [2], [3], [4] etc, but am sure this is a good excuse to open another one. :-) [1] - https://code.visualstudio.com https://code.visualstudio.com [2] - https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell [3] - https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#linuxfedora https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#linuxfedora [4] - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/
- webmaven 10y agoOf those, I think only #1 and #2 should be considered "applications".
- AsyncAwait 10y agoYou're probably right. Point being, they already shipped code for Linux.
- digi_owl 10y agoHeh, i somehow missed/forgot those. Also, hilarious that they offer visual studio in not just RPM and DEB but tar-ball as well, never mind 32-bit versions. Thats much more thorough than certain web browsers these days...