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Someone has been predicting that Microsoft would in the future produce their own Linux Distro on Slashdot for the last 5 years. I remember thinking it sounded i
by JudasGoat 8y ago
Someone has been predicting that Microsoft would in the future produce their own Linux Distro on Slashdot for the last 5 years. I remember thinking it sounded impossible for for the first few years. Seems prophetic now.
- Operyl 8y agoIf you say the same thing long enough one day it’ll be true in some way (little or big).
- drbojingle 8y agoTo bad your statement isn't one of those things.
- BinaryIdiot 8y agoIf you say the same thing long enough one day it’ll be true in some way (little or big).
- quickthrower2 8y agoLinus is going to write his own Windows distribution
- shermanyo 8y agoclose enough? :P https://www.winehq.org/ https://www.winehq.org/
- squarefoot 8y agoRather than their Linux distro I think they will do what Google did with Android, that is, making their ecosystem run under the Linux kernel (plus MS services) so that they will save a huge load of money by not having to maintain their own kernel. Think about not having to write drivers for every piece of hardware that gets produced; they would probably just audit and test the code to certify the driver as fully compatible. This may seem good, but my paranoid half (make it 9/10) thinks they could "hijack" the Linux user base by releasing software certified as Linux compatible that runs only under their Linux, and by being platinum members of the Linux Foundation they could be entitled to say that their Linux is the only true one.
- lalaithion 8y agoAnd then Linus would fork it, and everyone would follow his fork instead of Microsoft's.
- squarefoot 8y agoWe would for sure, though I'm not sure about the corporate world.