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Your complaints would make a great infomercial setup. "Are you tired of your Linux distro being bought out and crushed by IBM exactly one time in history?" Cut
by fartcannon 6y ago
Your complaints would make a great infomercial setup.
"Are you tired of your Linux distro being bought out and crushed by IBM exactly one time in history?"
Cut to a big dopey confused person shrugging.
"Well then try Apple!"
Dopey person smiles.
Star wipe.
- Spivak 6y agoI mean the writing seems to be on the wall that someone is going to buy Canonical and crush Ubuntu at some point in the medium-term.
- lightbulbjim 6y agoMy bet is Microsoft. One day we will have Windows-native snaps. Hmm...
- FlyMoreRockets 6y agoWow. That sounds surprisingly probable, now that you bring it up. Ubuntu is wildly popular, but requires a lot of money. Microsoft has a lot of money and seems to be trending toward open source.
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoMicrosoft turned down an offer to bid on Red Hat, whose enterprise focus is a much better fit for them, before the sale to IBM so there's no reason to believe they would bid for Canonical. https://www.businessinsider.com/red-hat-deal-talks-with-amazon-microsoft-google-before-34-billion-ibm-acquisition-2018-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/red-hat-deal-talks-with-amaz...
- pjmlp 6y agoOther than Ubuntu being the favoured WSL distro.
- rangoon626 6y agoThe great consolidations of linxuses of the 2020s. Back to BSDs?
- fgonzag 6y agoDebian is still available. And it's great.