Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : Gamgee
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Apr 25 2022 14:01:01

  Re: Re: Windows vs Linux
  By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Mon Apr 25 2022 02:56 pm

 Ni>> Sometimes I'm still a little suspicious about why Microsoft is
 Ni>> doing the things they're doing these days, in supporting Linux
 Ni>> and such.  It seemed Microsoft used to employ tactics like
 Ni>> "embrace, extend, and extinguish" to try to eliminate competing
 Ni>> technologies.  By supporting Linux, I've wondered if Microsoft
 Ni>> eventually plans to try to destroy Linux in the long term.

 Ga> I don't think they can destroy it, because Linux isn't under their 
 Ga> absolute control, like Windows is. The open-source aspect means many 
 Ga> people have control and they can't affect that.

You're probably right.  Though I still wonder what they're up to, and if they really just want to support the Linux community.

They might not be able to destroy Linux, but I wonder if they could make things difficult.  IMO they did that with the web in the 2000s - Microsoft made Internet Explorer popular by including it with Windows, and then introduced their own web extensions that only worked in Internet Explorer.  Internet Explorer also had bugs and quirks that many web developers worked around.  The result was that there were many web sites at the time that only really worked with Internet Explorer and didn't work as well with other browsers, because web developers sometimes focused mainly on getting their site to work with Internet Explorer.

Nightfox
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