Originally posted by cj.wijtmans
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Microsoft Keynoting LinuxCon, Continues Talking Up Linux/OSS
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Of course they love Linux. Microsoft makes a lot of money from Linux. Every third VM on Azure is running Linux. All these Linux users need instruments to manage the VMs, so they added Bash in Windows and Powershell for Linux. Most of Azure VMs are hosting web applications, but why users should use PHP when can run Asp.NET, so .net was opensourced and can run under Linux.
Microsoft doesn't care about Linux desktop with 3% market share it is not a scary thing.
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Originally posted by duby229 View Post
Yep, it's normal and perfectly reasonable. MS has a long history of using EEE tactics to kill competition. There is absolutely no reason to think any different about this circumstance.
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Originally posted by Mike Frett View Post
Port it? No way man, they still have complete control and can kill it anytime. Why not Open Source it with a FOSS License? Better yet, just use Vulkan and urge developers to move away from DirectX.
IMHO DirectX for Mac/iOS would make more sense for protecting their turf.
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Originally posted by ElectricPrism View PostOk Microsoft are you listening? For me to openly welcome you on Linux you'll have to port Direct X to Linux. If you do that I'll accept you into my sacred Linux Club of 12+ PCs & users.
"Great news, now add 7 zeros after 12 and deal."
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Well, I can't seem to find it at the moment, but years ago MS lost a lawsuit about directx. Basically the result is that independent 3rd party implementations cannot be considered patent infringement. Anybody can re-implement d3d as long as they document the entire development process using clean room methodology.
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