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If we assume this is technically sound and so on, is there a political dimension that will be considered before merging this? Such as "this will decrease Linux
by mongol 6y ago
If we assume this is technically sound and so on, is there a political dimension that will be considered before merging this? Such as "this will decrease Linux marketplace penetration in this-and-this niche"? I know that Linux is not a company etc so a direct comparison is awkward, but there can still be such considerations weighing in, perhaps...?
- rbanffy 6y agoAnyone who's hosting Hyper-V VMs on Windows can now move to Linux and host those VMs under the same Hyper-V environment they were before. I'm not sure how many do this and, frankly, I'm quite surprised Microsoft does it on Azure. Of course, you can run those same VMs under KVM under a Linux OS, so it's not some new capability.
- tmarsden 6y agoHow does enabling software to run on Linux decrease Linux marketplace penetration? If anything it would have the opposite effect as anyone running Hyper-V could now choose to host on Linux.
- wvenable 6y agoThis only increases Linux's marketplace penetration as this allows Linux to be used in situations where previously on Windows could be used. But Linux developers do not care about market penetration -- they simply want to create the best OS kernel. If this makes the kernel better, they will merge it.