Microsoft Loves Linux!

https://archive.fo/EoMRw | http://techrights.org/2016/02/10/extorting-acer-with-patents/
Microsoft loves Linux the way a python likes sheep. Microsoft uses software patent threats to bully Android phone makers to include Microsoft's proprietary malware. Microsoft donates to the Linux foundation so that they upscale, making them reliant on Microsoftbux and more amiable to Microsoft's influence, thereby.

>>38

Maybe rms was right all along.

What do you mean by this?

>>40
Windows trained administrators are a dime a dozen. This means there are a bigger pool of people with these skills than there are with "high quality" Unix training. This means it's far easier to find people to administrate your already existing Windows system than it is to find Unix admins to migrate and administrate your IT system to Unix.

>>41
That must be why I get so many calls from Windows experts offering to help me with my computer problems.

>>41

This means it's far easier to find people to administrate your already existing Windows system than it is to find Unix admins to migrate and administrate your IT system to Unix.

Literally all greenfield projects nowadays deploy on Linux. No one uses Windows anymore outside of legacy corporate America stuff.

>>4
Of course Poettering is a RedHat employee, and RedHat may in fact see other (more free) Linux stuff as competition, so your idea may not be that far off -- it's just RedHat and not Microsoft.

>>44
That's absurd. RedHat basically has a monopoly on the enterprise world. Literally none of the other projects even try to compete; they just carve out a little niche for themselves. Furthermore, RedHat is single-handedly the company innovating GNU/Linux, and it's been that way since its inception.

>>45
They're more military than enterprise though.

>>46
Is this hearsay, who told you this?

>>44

it's just RedHat and not Microsoft.

Or rather, it's both. Microsoft has been pretty friendly with their "former" competition lately, especially with Apple Inc. I wouldn't be surprised if they were funneling some money into RedHat and the major distributions to try to subvert them in some fashion. They've never stopped with their EEE tactics, but now I think it's finally hit a ceiling. And at best, it's revealed a lot of back-stabbing Judases in the Linux world.

>>48
A benevolent publically traded company is still a publically traded company. It doesn't matter whether they're friendly or not to others, because the trajectory is the same: satisfy their shareholders by means of unhindered expansion and suffocating competition. When will people learn?

>>49
Yes, except most Linux distributions are developed on a non-profit donation-based method of funding. They don't have shareholders to report to. So I can understand why RedHat would, but not Debian. So far, the last major holdouts seem to be Slackware and Gentoo.

>>50
Debian's sponsors are primarily enterprise. Slackware's sponsors are primarily individual users who use it for Desktop. Gentoo's whole schtick is that they're portable, which is why they're the exception, even if they're also an enterprise project, because they achieve a different end than their contemporaries.

>>51
Enterprise sponsorship means nothing. These distros do not exist for the purpose of enriching their shareholders because there is no shareholder to enrich!

>>52
But they're beholden to their sponsors?