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Imagine a world wide web where Microsoft buys Mozilla because of a programming language they happened to develop.

by 0x0 6y ago

ChrisSD 6y ago
Mozilla doesn't develop Rust. Mozilla developers are involved in Rust's development but that's not quite the same thing. Microsoft buying Mozilla would only buy developer time, not Rust itself (and then only if the developers don't jump ship).
VWWHFSfQ 6y ago
I think Canonical will be the next major "earth-shattering" acquisition that Microsoft makes. Ubuntu is so widely deployed as the defacto Linux OS everywhere from Linux CI images, AWS instances. Azure. After IBM bought Red Hat it seems like there's a run on owning the Linux "ecosystem", even if you can't own the code. Microsoft is demonstrating that they want to own the new world of development/deployment ecosystem end-to-end. Github, VS Code, NPM. Next will be the operating system that everyone runs their stuff on. Doesn't WSL already default to Ubuntu anyway? Edit: also isn't Shutteworth still funding Canonical out of his pocket? The last I checked it wasn't nearly profitable.
- bhouston 6y ago
  What a brilliant move for Ms to acquire canonical and then fund the crap out of it
- empath75 6y ago
  I think that would get a pretty close look from the justice department.
  - ashtonkem 6y ago
    Would it? I don’t believe that Canonical is anywhere close to dominating the Linux space, and MS is continuing its slow slide from total market dominance. Under what theory would the justice department interfere?
- sansnomme 6y ago
  Be careful, a lot of people do not like that idea. The last time I mentioned it I was downvoted deep into the negatives. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23205763 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23205763
- letitbeirie 6y ago
  If Ballmer were still in charge they would have just outbid IBM for Redhat.

4 ms·

Imagine a world wide web where Microsoft buys Mozilla because of a programming language they happened to develop.

by 0x0 6y ago

Imagine a world wide web where Microsoft buys Mozilla because of a programming language they happened to develop.

ChrisSD 6y ago
Mozilla doesn't develop Rust. Mozilla developers are involved in Rust's development but that's not quite the same thing. Microsoft buying Mozilla would only buy developer time, not Rust itself (and then only if the developers don't jump ship).
VWWHFSfQ 6y ago
I think Canonical will be the next major "earth-shattering" acquisition that Microsoft makes. Ubuntu is so widely deployed as the defacto Linux OS everywhere from Linux CI images, AWS instances. Azure. After IBM bought Red Hat it seems like there's a run on owning the Linux "ecosystem", even if you can't own the code. Microsoft is demonstrating that they want to own the new world of development/deployment ecosystem end-to-end. Github, VS Code, NPM. Next will be the operating system that everyone runs their stuff on. Doesn't WSL already default to Ubuntu anyway? Edit: also isn't Shutteworth still funding Canonical out of his pocket? The last I checked it wasn't nearly profitable.
- bhouston 6y ago
  What a brilliant move for Ms to acquire canonical and then fund the crap out of it
- empath75 6y ago
  I think that would get a pretty close look from the justice department.
  - ashtonkem 6y ago
    Would it? I don’t believe that Canonical is anywhere close to dominating the Linux space, and MS is continuing its slow slide from total market dominance. Under what theory would the justice department interfere?
- sansnomme 6y ago
  Be careful, a lot of people do not like that idea. The last time I mentioned it I was downvoted deep into the negatives. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23205763 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23205763
- letitbeirie 6y ago
  If Ballmer were still in charge they would have just outbid IBM for Redhat.