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  • #21
    Originally posted by torsionbar28
    A board seat also gives MS insight into the future direction of Linux, and the challenges and weaknesses that aren't generally advertised to the world. They'll of course use this insider information to make their own Windows OS more competitive against Linux. Make no mistake, MS is a Platinum member now purely for their own financial benefit.
    If it were a normal company sure, but LF does not make any important decisions, or have essential information not available to the public. Any bystander can pick up Linux's challenges and weaknesses, and votes at the LF direct LF funds, nothing more.

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    • #22
      Originally posted by doublez13 View Post
      ...Trump's up to something...
      i thought it was obamas fault?

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      • #23
        Oh, come on...
        Could we please know the names of people who got bribed and accepted these assholes here?
        It's software freedom too much to ask in this shitty world?

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        • #24
          Originally posted by ermo View Post

          Microsoft is a business entity. It should therefore come as no surprise that it generally has its own best interests at heart. Right now, it suits Microsoft to be a member of the Linux Foundation, though noone outside of the people who approved the financial backing for the platinum membership will likely know the exact reasoning and motives for the decision.

          Can Microsoft kill Linux? As history has shown so far, this is unlikely. Can Microsoft sponsor and thereby influence the development of Linux? Certainly. After all, if RedHat can, why not Microsoft?
          Registered just to say that you should keep your enemy as close as possible but not closer. So you dont forget who you are.

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          • #25
            Originally posted by ermo View Post
            Microsoft is a business entity. It should therefore come as no surprise that it generally has its own best interests at heart. Right now, it suits Microsoft to be a member of the Linux Foundation, though noone outside of the people who approved the financial backing for the platinum membership will likely know the exact reasoning and motives for the decision.
            Knowing Microsoft, it's unlikely the people who approved the financial backing for the platinum membership know why they did it either. MS's ways have always been mysterious and not terribly smart in the last decade (anything they made after win7 was a rather obvious and preventable disaster, more or less).

            Can Microsoft kill Linux? As history has shown so far, this is unlikely. Can Microsoft sponsor and thereby influence the development of Linux? Certainly.
            Another good question is if Linux (or opensource in general) can influence the development of Microsoft.
            Would be cool if they stopped being the usual corporate asses, for a change.

            After all, if RedHat can, why not Microsoft?
            Red Hat people have a very firm grasp on reality that Microsoft does not really have. More than 2 decades of vendor lock-in fucked up their managers, they have no idea of what it takes to stay afloat in an actually competitive IT market (as more or less all their attempts to get out of their monopoly stronghold have shown).

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            • #26
              Originally posted by cj.wijtmans View Post
              i thought it was obamas fault?
              Please update all instances of "Thanks Obama" into "Thanks Trump".

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              • #27
                This is really bad news.
                Can't believe the Linux Foundation let them in.
                IMO the Linux Foundation has lost all credibility with this move.

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                • #28
                  Originally posted by Danny3 View Post
                  Oh, come on...
                  Could we please know the names of people who got bribed and accepted these assholes here?
                  It's software freedom too much to ask in this shitty world?
                  There is no barrier to entry in the foundation. You pay, you get in, like everyone else.

                  Btw, if you look at the board members, there are also other grade A+++ assholes like Samsung, Oracle, Huawei (platinum members), Adobe, Allwinner, Autodesk, ARM, J.P. Morgan, Lenovo (silver members).

                  Linux Foundation members help support the development of shared technology resources while accelerating their own innovation through open source.


                  I mean, they have J-fucking-P-fucking-Morgan in there already.

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                  • #29
                    Originally posted by M@GOid View Post
                    Nope. That will happen when they have a native port of Office to Linux.
                    it happened https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...fice.officehub

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                    • #30
                      Originally posted by cj.wijtmans View Post
                      Looks like its time for BSD.
                      and please don't return

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