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Wouldn't it be easier for MS to just open-source the NT kernel instead of making the big shift to Linux? I can't think Windows' internals (if they ever get expo
by dartharva 6y ago
Wouldn't it be easier for MS to just open-source the NT kernel instead of making the big shift to Linux? I can't think Windows' internals (if they ever get exposed) could have been inferior to Linux in any way.
- yazaddaruvala 6y agoNetworks effects. Microsoft doesn’t want to recreate a 20 year old organization/community that has been built on primarily donations. No company or large group of people is going to donate the same levels of dev-hours to the NT kernel. It’s just simpler to have a team or two of in-house devs contribute those improvements from NT to Linux.