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Ahaha! Him today: "I may have called Linux a cancer but now I love it" https://www.zdnet.com/article/ballmer-i-may-have-called-linux-a-cancer-but-now-i-love-i

by pknopf 8y ago

Ahaha! Him today: "I may have called Linux a cancer but now I love it" https://www.zdnet.com/article/ballmer-i-may-have-called-linux-a-cancer-but-now-i-love-it/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/ballmer-i-may-have-called-linu... If you can't beat them, join them. Honestly though, Microsoft was beat into submission here. Developers and applications (in general) are moving to Linux. Microsoft has no leverage. Sure, buying GitHub may be seen as obtaining leverage, but I think it's clear that you can't strong-arm FOSS sustainably. Free and open is built in.

partycoder 8y ago
You are right. Right now Microsoft sounds the same as a politician after losing the primaries, forced to endorse the candidate they competed with and criticized. We know well though, that when there's a new election, all that happy friendship BS will be over and we will see their true colors again.