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STEP 1: Embrace STEP 2: Extend <-- you are here STEP 3: Extenguish

by thepangolino 5y ago

voidfunc 5y ago
STEP 4: Yawn
Gibbon1 5y ago
Bill Gates quit Microsoft 20 years ago dude.
- ASalazarMX 5y ago
  In March 2020 he left the Microsoft board. While Bill Gates wasn't involved in daily operation, he didn't really leave Microsoft until a year ago.
- meowster 5y ago
  That doesn't stop the threat. Ideas can outlive individual people.
Dylan16807 5y ago
They've done a couple things you could file under extend. But running Linux GUI programs is not extending, it's catching up.
- meowster 5y ago
  That sounds like semantics. Who needs a privacy-respecting operating system when a popular privacy-invasive operating system runs the Linux software just fine?
  - mixmastamyk 5y ago
    Should be a top-level comment.
  - Dylan16807 5y ago
    You can't EEE if you don't Extend. It's not semantics. If you stay at "Embrace" you have Edge or Windows Terminal, nobody's going to get mad about those.
  - jodrellblank 5y ago
    Who needs to justify or explain how "run Linux in a VM" leads to extinguishing anything, or how it will stop you forking your own Linux or runing any of the distros unrelated to Microsoft/WSL2 any time you like, when you can simply copypaste 20 year old fearmongering?
supernintendo 5y ago
How do you imagine Microsoft pulling off the "extinguish" step? Linux is the most popular OS for servers even on Microsoft Azure [0] so I don't see any threat in that regard. Then you have weirdos like me who have been running some variant of GNU/Linux as their primary desktop OS for years and will continue to do so. Sure, it's cool that Windows can run Linux software now but that doesn't make me want to switch. I like Linux. It handles all of my computing needs, I enjoy the control I have over my OS and a lot of the features of Windows simply do not appeal to me (Windows Shell, Windows Update, the whole "registry" architecture, built-in telemetry and advertising, and more). To people who don't enjoy running Linux as their daily driver or need to use Windows for some other reason there's WSL, and I think that's great. [0] https://build5nines.com/linux-is-most-used-os-in-microsoft-azure-over-50-percent-fo-vm-cores/ https://build5nines.com/linux-is-most-used-os-in-microsoft-a...

STEP 1: Embrace STEP 2: Extend <-- you are here STEP 3: Extenguish

voidfunc 5y ago

STEP 4: Yawn

Gibbon1 5y ago

Bill Gates quit Microsoft 20 years ago dude.

ASalazarMX 5y ago
In March 2020 he left the Microsoft board. While Bill Gates wasn't involved in daily operation, he didn't really leave Microsoft until a year ago.
meowster 5y ago
That doesn't stop the threat. Ideas can outlive individual people.

Dylan16807 5y ago

They've done a couple things you could file under extend. But running Linux GUI programs is not extending, it's catching up.

meowster 5y ago
That sounds like semantics. Who needs a privacy-respecting operating system when a popular privacy-invasive operating system runs the Linux software just fine?
- mixmastamyk 5y ago
  Should be a top-level comment.
- Dylan16807 5y ago
  You can't EEE if you don't Extend. It's not semantics. If you stay at "Embrace" you have Edge or Windows Terminal, nobody's going to get mad about those.
- jodrellblank 5y ago
  Who needs to justify or explain how "run Linux in a VM" leads to extinguishing anything, or how it will stop you forking your own Linux or runing any of the distros unrelated to Microsoft/WSL2 any time you like, when you can simply copypaste 20 year old fearmongering?

supernintendo 5y ago

How do you imagine Microsoft pulling off the "extinguish" step? Linux is the most popular OS for servers even on Microsoft Azure [0] so I don't see any threat in that regard. Then you have weirdos like me who have been running some variant of GNU/Linux as their primary desktop OS for years and will continue to do so. Sure, it's cool that Windows can run Linux software now but that doesn't make me want to switch. I like Linux. It handles all of my computing needs, I enjoy the control I have over my OS and a lot of the features of Windows simply do not appeal to me (Windows Shell, Windows Update, the whole "registry" architecture, built-in telemetry and advertising, and more). To people who don't enjoy running Linux as their daily driver or need to use Windows for some other reason there's WSL, and I think that's great. [0] https://build5nines.com/linux-is-most-used-os-in-microsoft-azure-over-50-percent-fo-vm-cores/ https://build5nines.com/linux-is-most-used-os-in-microsoft-a...