Listen well to this prediction, because that is what's going to happen in the 20s.
>Microsodt acquisition Canonical
>Microsoft acquisition of SystemD
Be smart. Move out of Ubuntu before Microsoft makes the first move.
Microsoft buys Linux
Listen well to this prediction, because that is what's going to happen in the 20s.
>Microsodt acquisition Canonical
>Microsoft acquisition of SystemD
Be smart. Move out of Ubuntu before Microsoft makes the first move.
Remember, they started it all with WSL.
>embrace
>extend (You are here)
>extinguish
the extinguish part is just only starting
acquisition of SystemD
Fake news spread by anti systemd cultists
Canonical is of too little value to be an acquisition target for the likes of Microsoft. And they've already had their hooks into the kernel for 10 years now.
No, you're just a really unbelievably stupid, worthless piece of shit, bruce, and we will all rejoice in collective reverie when you finally fulfill your purpose as a JS webjeet and join the 41%.
wow, everyday IQfy gets stupider
But I already use ubuntu on windows with WSL :thinking:
I will stay in windows
honestly, bait or not, i wouldnt put it past them. microsoft has been so aggressively anticonsumer in the past ~7 years that i could forsee something like this happening.
microsoft acquiring "Linux" (distros), illegally changing license terms, installing spyware and fricking over the user is not an impossibility. mark my fricking words, they're not slowing down their bullshit, let alone stopping. remember minecraft?
They're already in bed with Canonical anon.
In your own words - please explain how Microsoft would illegally change the license of something that they own on paper? Hard mode: no Misc or G infographics may be used to make your point.
Begin.
Microsoft acquires Canonical and adds Bing Shopping to the interface, exactly the same way that Canonical added Amazon Shopping to the interface 10 years ago. They fork existing Canonical tools under increasingly less permissive licenses until they've close-sourced them, the same way that Oracle did with all of its Sun acquisitions. Through "hardware partnerships" they begin rolling out Ubuntu-equipped laptops and workstations with these proprietary or quasi-proprietary tools until commercial entities that use Ubuntu and Canonical tools become dependent on the new features and extended capabilities they have added to the now-proprietary or quasi-proprietary tools. Eventually these non-standard, undocumented, proprietary capabilities become killer features for commercial customers, and they find themselves running an operating system based on the Linux kernel, but running mostly Microsoft proprietary or quasi-proprietary software. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is not something that somebody just made up one day to disparage Microsoft. The DOJ found that phrase littered all over their internal docs. It's been part of their business strategy ever since NT, and especially since all of their shitty non-standard web technologies built into IE (there are still to this day gigantic megacorps running fricking ActiveX extensions and keeping their old XP machines limping along because it would cost a goddamn fortune to migrate to a standards-compliant alternative). This ain't exactly rocket surgery.
Microsoft hasn't been anti-consumer, I mean;
>free unlimited private github repos
>practically giving away windows for free
>playfab analytics for free*
>xbox gamepass + their cloud streaming stuff
as a consumer, that stuff is fantastic
but they're not the good guys at all, they're using very consumer friendly practices as bait to encourage people to use their offerings to get as much data as possible with stuff like spyware as you said
being a taxpayer leech is anti-consumer
current ryzen is all the computing power I'll need for the next 50 years.
Where do we go after this? What can use more CPU?
The only thing is virtual 3D A.I. real time shit, nothing that is even good.. No reason to join in, no reason to update
Good they will make it usable.
Ubuntu is already much more usable than Windows. It's not Gentoo we're talking about here.
Microsoft already shower Canonical with money and Canonical makes a very large part of its benefits in Azure. The day you see Microsoft acquiring Canonical isn't far at all.
acquisition of SystemD
You don't know how FOSS works. It's practically impossible to acquire large FOSS projects.
Lennart poettering leading a canonical NIH project at microsoft's direction sounds like a surreal nightmare.
it's the future we chose
>twskys
I don't visit IQfy that regularly, but this an old copy pasta from last year.
how long after MS buying canonical before linux mint is effected?
I don't think Mint will ever be. MS would have a strong position in the Linux world with Ubuntu and since it's cashcow (Azure) is mostly based on Ubuntu Servers that would help increase their marketshare on the cloud. Mint is useless for them.
we should switch to RHEL now?
Just use Debian. It's the most robust alternative to Ubuntu.
>Microsoft bad
>IBM good
Go with SUSE
Just use Debian.
Maybe Linux desktop won't be all shit then.
probably the best thing for Linux adoption.
decades and decades Linux got nowhere, then suddenly Google takes it into their hands - boom most successful mobile OS (or OS in general). What Linux is lacking is the firm guiding hands of a big corporation.
Linux was already powering 90% of the servers on the web before Android was a twinkle in Andy Rubin's eye, and the only thing Google's contribution has done is bloat the shit ouf the kernel to the point where we're going to be looking at a fork almost as soon as Linus is #MeToo'd back to Hellsinki.
I can't wait honestly, maybe we'll get a good display server
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Systemd-Creator-Microsoft
This may take many by surprise but let's not forget Microsoft has over time employed a number of Linux developers and other prominent open-source developers... Microsoft currently employs Python creator Guido van Rossum, GNOME creator Miguel de Icaza had been employed by Microsoft from 2016 when they acquired Xamarin to earlier this year when he left, Nat Friedman as part of Xamarin-Microsoft served as GitHub CEO following Microsoft's acquisition, Gentoo Linux founder Daniel Robbins was previously employed by Microsoft, Steve French as the Linux CIFS/SMB2/SMB3 maintainer and Samba team member works for Microsoft, and Microsoft employs/previously-employed a large number of upstream Linux developers like Matteo Croce, Matthew Wilcox, Tyler Hicks, Shyam Prasad N, Michael Kelley, and many others beyond just the usual immediately recognizable names to Linux enthusiasts/developers. It was also just earlier this year that Christian Brauner as another longtime Linux kernel developer joined Microsoft. Christian Brauner is Berlin-based like Lennart and moved on to Microsoft after the past half-decade at Canonical working on the Linux kernel, LXC, systemd, and more.