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It'll take a management change and some serious actions. Let's make no mistake, the company has been compeltely and 100% opposed to Linux for a very long time
by TheCondor 15y ago
It'll take a management change and some serious actions.
Let's make no mistake, the company has been compeltely and 100% opposed to Linux for a very long time now. What exactly would it take to constitue a change of heart? Seriously? I would think they could extend patent amnesty to all Linux distributions. They could embrace the Mono project. They could acutally release some software on Linux. How about media player codecs? When they come up with something like JPEG-XR or VC1, how about an MIT or BSD or GPL licensed reference implementation?
Short of porting a major application to Linux (Office?) I think a sizable contingent would never believe them. As others have mentioned, if you're building web apps, how do they even matter other than having a crappy browser that you have to code for?
- tedunangst 15y agoJust one example, but the asp.net mvc source/reference implementation is available under a liberal license and plays nice with mono.
- Nelson69 15y agoMono isn't exactly killing it as the go to development platform.
- dredmorbius 15y agoMicrosoft aren't opposed to _all_ free software licenses. They've been rather fond of BSD licensed software from the get-go (it was used and may still appear among copyright credits in Windows). The GPL is another matter. Though in recent kernels, Microsoft have contributed more than Google have.