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I'm still convinced the long term plan is to stop people being able to boot a Linux kernel on desktop hardware (think secure boot) and when people complain the

I'm still convinced the long term plan is to stop people being able to boot a Linux kernel on desktop hardware (think secure boot) and when people complain the response is going to be "but you can run Linux on Windows!"

ROARosen 5y ago
After all, there must be something diabolical when Microsoft is just doing something to appease devs who have for years railed against them for being dev hostile.
- pbhjpbhj 5y ago
  If you've been bitten by a tiger, it seems right to be wary when it invites you for dinner.
- waheoo 5y ago
  Ah... Yes. Seriously, you kids do not remember things clearly or simply weren't around. Microsoft simply cannot be trusted. Maybe ya'll are fine forgiving and forgetting but personally I take a stance on a company for this kind of behaviour I don't forgive. Same goes for a lot of companies with awful histories of Child Labor and agregious abuses. > Linux is the long term threat against our core business. Never forget that! I won't. https://www.theregister.com/2001/11/12/ms_promotes_linux_from_threat/ https://www.theregister.com/2001/11/12/ms_promotes_linux_fro...
  - ROARosen 5y ago
    Imagine keeping sanctions on South Africa for apartheid decades after they've ended it and that regime is long gone. (Not that I'm comparing the two but since you brought in child labor I'm just going further down that lane.)
    - dane-pgp 5y ago
      The difference is, the constitution of South Africa now makes apartheid legally impossible (I assume, I haven't actually read it), whereas the corporate charter of Microsoft not just allows but potentially requires it to attack Linux.