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Who ever assumed corporations were going to save the Linux community?
by game_the0ry 6y ago
Who ever assumed corporations were going to save the Linux community?
- phkahler 6y agoAll the people who think VScode on Linux is great, and think it's nice that MS money backing github is not risky, and that WSL is cool and we should let them bring DirextX to Linux too. In isolation any of those could be cool, but some see the totality of it as awesome rather than a full assault.
- qz2 6y agoYou forgot PowerShell and SQL Server. This whole situation makes me feel a little sick if I'm honest. It's ok to have platforms, but it's not ok to blur the lines because everyone needs an exit plan.
- phkahler 6y agoI also forgot .net
- disown 6y agoEven worse, if you mention the "telemetry" in VSCode, you get a PR barrage of downvotes and comments saying it's "optional" and Microsoft isn't like facebook and they don't depend on data. Nevermind that data is the direction nadella wants to take microsoft - free windows 10, linkedin, github, etc. The "love" you see for microsoft, gates, etc here is bizarre.
- nip180 6y ago> we should let them bring DirextX to Linux too. The thing I like about open source is that you don’t need to ask permission to modify, expand, or target. Still, I would never run DirectX on my computers.
- lightweight 6y agoMicrosoft "Loves" Linux and open source the same way a tapeworm loves a healthy digestive system.
- bigbubba 6y agoThere seem to be some such people in this very discussion who think corporations might.
- fomine3 6y agoRed Hat is exceptional.