Subj : distro
To   : Nightfox
From : KK4QBN
Date : Wed Dec 20 2017 07:18:06

  Re: distro
  By: Nightfox to KK4QBN on Tue Dec 19 2017 22:24:38

 Ni> I did wonder about Microsoft's intentions when they started supporting
 Ni> Linux more (I've heard of them releasing some version of Visual Studio and
 Ni> possibly some other of their tools for Linux).

I'm speculating but, I wonder if tyhey don't try to buy out what they can of
canonical. I know only so much can be done, because in this case hopefully the
GNU/GPL license will protect us. but as you said, what are their intententions?
I know it's not to make linux and windows more "interoperable" bcause still,
being the business man he is would much rather see any open source shut down
tightly, so I would have to believe it's something more sinister in the long
run. and Shuttleworth is really just seeing $$$ in is eyes, but us not looking
to far in the future.

You could tell something was wrong when Jane Silber resigned and Shuttleworth
took back over control.

I truly like to see more interoperability betweeen the two OS, but just only as
far as it has gotten.. to help make Windows 10 a better developor platform, I
relly see no upside for the linux community at all.

And now with the ditching of unity, and dropping support for flavors (except
gnome) one can can that MS has more say in what is being done that what is
being publicly told. shuttleworth did say it was mainly for cloud support that
MS will be spearheading.. and I won't be having none of it.. I'll keep this
verion (Debian version) of Mint and go with it.. or go back to Debian, or
FreeBSD for what that matters.. at least they did'nt cave to Apple, apple just
stole their stuff..

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