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That's a very personalizing argument. No, MS does not "try to help Linux out of the goodness of it's heart." (a) its a corporate - corporates don't have heart
by abraae 8y ago
That's a very personalizing argument.
No, MS does not "try to help Linux out of the goodness of it's heart."
(a) its a corporate - corporates don't have hearts
(b) even individuals usually have an ulterior motive for their actions. Perhaps by helping Linux, we get some personal ego boost from seeing our own name on the contributor's wall. Or perhaps when Linux wins, the market for our Linux skills grows.
Whatever, no-one does anything much out of the pure goodness of their hearts.
- oaiey 8y agoThis. They run millions of Linux systems in Azure and need well known tools for it. So they ported ProcDump to Linux. And open sourced it, because customers may also need it. They needed some grip on developers to promote Azure. So they hand out VSCode and .NET Core. Microsoft needs to earn money. The simplest ways to keep or acquire customers is with good toys.