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The main systemd guy, Lennart Poettering, recently left Red Hat to go work for Microsoft. Hmm...

• dv_dt 3y ago
  Oh I didn't realize that. Maybe similar teeth, different dragon. I'm cautious about Microsoft, but recently I'd have to say they've been a reasonable Linux community member - though if there are fewer larger balancing orgs - who knows.
  • inetknght 3y ago
    > about Microsoft, but recently I'd have to say they've been a reasonable Linux community member All it takes is to look around at what Microsoft is doing to gestures vaguely to see the writing on the wall for how Microsoft sees Linux. Advertisements on the home screen? Advertisements on the every screen? Login darkpatterns? Configuration resets on updates? Forceful browser choices? Forced updates? UEFI shenanigans? Boot manager shenanigans?
    • dv_dt 3y ago
      Yup, the windows OS (as opposed to Linux) is where they have no counterbalancing reason to not pursue darker patterns. So it's a window into unchecked tendencies.
    • pjmlp 3y ago
      It looks like....Android. As proven by OEM distributions on by gone netbooks, and Android flavours, OEMs will always do what they do best. In what concerns Windows, unfortunately it appears only Azure, Office and XBox matter now.
    • kaba0 3y ago
      Or you know, Microsoft is a giga-company with no singular goal (besides increasing revenue). Improving and “destroying” linux may be simultaneously goals to separate areas of the same company, and due to bureaucracy I really can’t take this conteos seriously.
  • Arch-TK 3y ago
    >but recently I'd have to say they've been a reasonable Linux community member LOL Its amazing how easy it is. I guess if you spend your entire history being a shitty company and then spend a couple of years pretending to be marginally less shitty then you can dupe a bunch of people.