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The time that MS was spooked by Linux may be over, but what's still ongoing is the way that Microsoft still spooks Linux, to this day. Just read the comments o
by dark-star 3y ago
The time that MS was spooked by Linux may be over, but what's still ongoing is the way that Microsoft still spooks Linux, to this day.
Just read the comments on any Linux news site about systemd. I promise it will be hilarious. "Microsoft trying to take over Linux", "Pottering is a secret MS agent to undermine Linux", "Microsoft infesting Linux with BSODs", ... it goes on and on and on
Honestly, even if Microsoft had tried, it couldn't have done a better job at enraging the Linux folks than systemd did :-D
- gavinhoward 3y agoBut then...Poettering went to work for Microsoft, so...maybe they were right?
- aidenn0 3y agoI won't lie, if I had taken as much flack as Peottering did from the community[1], I'd take a job with MS just to troll them. 1: I'm personally not a fan of Pulse Audio, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't his decision to enable it in Ubuntu by default when it was still pretty broken, and holy shit I had like 12 backups of my working asoundrc at the time because configuring ALSA was such a pain, so PA was not in any sense gratuitous; it solved real problems.
- gavinhoward 3y agoNot disagreeing with you. Just want to add that even if he just took the job to troll with us, it still shows that his principles were never far from theirs anyway, even if he was genuine at first.
- pjmlp 3y agoMiguel de Icaza was another one, hence why nowadays he is so focused on Apple's ecosystem. "What Killed the Linux Desktop" https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html Nowadays, after getting Xamarin acquired by Microsoft, https://xibbon.com/ https://xibbon.com/ https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftGodot https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftGodot