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So make these apps work on Linux. They go instead inventing VMs and hypervisors to extend their walled gardens.
by de_watcher 6y ago
So make these apps work on Linux. They go instead inventing VMs and hypervisors to extend their walled gardens.
- throw_m239339 6y agoExactly. All these software companies could probably make their apps run on Linux at a minimal development cost. They just don't want to. Microsoft because they want people to use Windows, Adobe for whatever reason.
- colejohnson66 6y agoHow does this extend their walled garden? The kernel doesn’t just accept patches willy nilly.
- de_watcher 6y agoHow does this extend their walled garden? They want to capture Linux/MacOS users with that development.
- colejohnson66 6y agoEnticing developers to use their platform isn’t “extending their walled garden.” In a healthy free market, competition is good. Microsoft is encouraging using Linux, just through a VM instead of dual booting (or even removing Windows). Vendor lock-in, OTOH, would be a valid criticism. But again, this is not that.
- tester34 6y agobut they did afaik? there's Excel online.
- de_watcher 6y agoThe whole 'online' thing is the soft entry into the OS war by Google by the means of diminishing of the role of the OS: the OS is like a bootloader for the browser. Browser takes the responsibility of the OS shell and main applications (mail, drive, docs, chat...). So that's a slightly different topic.
- diffeomorphism 6y agoWhich is hardly comparable to excel.