Why acquire Canonical when they can just create a Redmond Linux distro and cherry-pick the best aspects of RHEL, Debian, or Gentoo -- or just plain fork somethi

Why acquire Canonical when they can just create a Redmond Linux distro and cherry-pick the best aspects of RHEL, Debian, or Gentoo -- or just plain fork something out there now and add the option of Microsoft corporate support for any manager wanting to buy a throat to choke in case there's a production hiccup? Or better yet: a Windows-like or Windows-compatible desktop that can run on any number of systems (and maybe corporate support is available for Debian, CentOS)? Let's not forget that the co-founder of Gnome has been working for Microsoft since 2016.