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Microsoft just bought part of a linux company. Wow, things are not as I remember them.

• hookey 12y ago
  “I don’t want to fight old battles, I want to fight new ones.” - Satya Nadella
• bch 12y ago
  see also: http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/emips/ http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/emips/ Microsoft donated an entire architecture work to NetBSD...
• dragonwriter 12y ago
  They've done it before, with Novell. (And, arguably, Nook.)
  • SixSigma 12y ago
    Microsoft released a version of Unix when Linus Torvalds was 11 years old. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
    • dragonwriter 12y ago
      Sure, but releasing a commercial Unix is different than investing in a Linux company. The former is less inconsistent with popular anti-Linux perception of Microsoft than the latter.