3 ms·
Microsoft only continue to make Windows desktop because businesses "need it", and it's a gateway to sell people azure and office. Eventually they will open sour
by k12sosse 3y ago
Microsoft only continue to make Windows desktop because businesses "need it", and it's a gateway to sell people azure and office. Eventually they will open source as much of it as they can, or rather, build a flavour of windows that is Linux and essentially distribute binaries for the directx stuff and other things they're not willing to fully release the code on.
mark my words, Windows isn't dying a natural death, it's parent is suffocating it in its sleep as a mercy killing.. mercy from having to support it forever
- physicles 3y agoI agree that windows is a gateway to sell people on office, but open sourcing it? Getting decades worth of apps and drivers working on the Linux kernel instead of, you know, doing nothing? I don’t see how either one benefits them. They’re just monetizing users as much as they can stand to juice revenue. No other explanation is needed.
- elzbardico 3y agoOpen sourcing windows probably would be so difficult that you could consider it a nearly impossible task. Over 40 years of licensing and patent agreements with thousands of companies and institutions with the unavoidable flux of acquisitions, merges and deaths, big customer agreements. You'll need an army of lawyers and sizable team of developers working in a multi-year project to secure all the paperworks and sanitize the code where you couldn't reach an agreement with the other party.