Microsoft Loves Linux... Even More...

[Zead]

probably already known to some.
command line package manager
Install-Package Photoshop
mmm, looks a bit familiar....
Apparently aimed at Nerdy Types

I quote from the comments:

"Linux users claiming for years that a command line is such an easy way to install software has for years been flamed by m$ fanboys, and now, that windows is going to come out with it, you are passing it asking like it's positive... I figure it's the same principal as when the iPhone switched from glass to plastic screens..."

Can't agree more...

[torreydale]

I've always thought it strange that Microsoft uses the below image as the default wallpaper for Windows 10 because, to me, it looks like they just opened the door on someone they were holding in solitary confinement.  I would think even they would want to avoid that subliminal message.

[LL-user]

Microsoft Hates Linux: Patent Extortion Continues With New Software Patents Deal (Wistron)
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Microsoft’s patent extortion of Linux is to net “$3 billion every years without moving a single finger,”
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[coop31]

However:
1.Microsoft brings MsSQL to Linux
2.Wim Coekaerts, the man who turned Oracle into a Linux powerhousemoving to Microsoft
3.Microsoft embracing Lin on its Azure cloud
4.Microsoft invest in Linux projects
5.Microsoft brings Bash to Windows

[Duckeenie]

I couldn't agree more Microsoft only does things that benefit them in my opinion.

Ironically (given Microsoft's history) isn't that just the definition of competition though?

[avj]

I would have to say that given the evidence, in my opinion microsoft is anti-competition. They have had anti-trust cases brought against them by the US DOJ, and the EU numerous times, because of monopolistic abuses.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/04/busine...wanted=all

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7266629.stm

http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/pops/pop7...facts.html

http://www.itpro.co.uk/609559/microsoft-...se-over-ie

[Teddy]

Microsoft certainly does fund towards Linux from the evidence I see. However, they are taking ideas and putting into their Windows OS, to make it appear like they "love" Linux and also to claim that their idea is original. Their own website servers run Linux. That in itself says something.

Lets say Microsoft incorporated Linux ideas and never funded Linux, EVER. How would that look to the press and to the Linux community as a whole? It would look very bad for them to say the least. Hadn't they not have any public pressure on them at all by consumers or the press, they probably wouldn't give a damn dime to the Linux foundation.

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[LinuxNoob]

Don't forget this is MS, there will be a hidden agenda here unfavorable to linux in the future.

I agree a leopard never changes its spots. I'm a little confused as in how Microsoft can legally do this. They can use open source and sell their OS? Can they even use the word Bash? hmmm

Remember Netscape? I wonder how many forgot about the antitrust scandals back in the day?

2cent~

[m654321]

Didn't Microsoft purchase Sun Microsystems, which own half of all Unix/Linux patents? That might explain why Microsoft loves Linux.  I think somewhere along the way they also filed claims that open source software infringed their own software patent...

[LL-user]

Sun has been acquired by Oracle, owned by Larry Ellison, also called the devil of Silicon Valley - for a good reason considering how he treats his employees, customers, and Linux/RedHat.