Simple: It's another way to gain industry control!
Instead of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, you simply start with the extend step, by making your own, and then/just TELL everybody to adopt your trap/. ^^
Let's see if people are that stupid.... (At least the kids who are too young to know MS and watch them closely (because they still do it), may be. But that is inexperience, not stupidity.)
Open Source was impractical for industrial use back then. Think of it. The Linux development cycle (even though not open source is still a good example) was getting over 70k patch submissions per release just to hunt through that mess for 3k-5k patches of workable code?
That efficiency threshold is unworkable.
Open Source was impractical for industrial use back then. Think of it. The Linux development cycle (even though not open source is still a good example) was getting over 70k patch submissions per release just to hunt through that mess for 3k-5k patches of workable code? That efficiency threshold is unworkable.
And yet it still absolutely fucking dominated windows in the server market. That didn't just happen last week, you know.
Now? The most productive servers in the market are steadily moving most (much) activity to Azure VM's or or even better, Linux VM's on Azure?
There is no doubt in my mind that Open Source was the strategy to pin everyone's even most boldest hopes and ideas to. And Gates and Ballmer said that over and over. But to have an existing commercial product then simply start converting whole sections or most likely all of your project to open source (and at the time there was no legal definition of "partially" OS)? That was just asking too much.
But to have an existing commercial product then simply start converting whole sections or most likely all of your project to open source (and at the time there was no legal definition of "partially" OS)? That was just asking too much.
Several companies were able to do it because their codebase was already portable, like when we got Wordperfect Office for Linux. It wasn't asking too much of a competent development team.
The WSL subsystem is just the VM concept that most users are moving to I think. I would call it linux, but I'm a person who believes systemd is linux as well. Call it process virtualization of sorts? I mean what percentage of users not in some development action will actually need a fully deployed root partitioned install of linux to be productive?
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- Alan Turing
Now I get why they like open source now! (Score:1)
After Ballmer hated it so much.
Simple: It's another way to gain industry control!
Instead of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, you simply start with the extend step, by making your own, and then /just TELL everybody to adopt your trap/. ^^
Let's see if people are that stupid....
(At least the kids who are too young to know MS and watch them closely (because they still do it), may be. But that is inexperience, not stupidity.)
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After Ballmer hated it so much.
Open Source was impractical for industrial use back then. Think of it. The Linux development cycle (even though not open source is still a good example) was getting over 70k patch submissions per release just to hunt through that mess for 3k-5k patches of workable code? That efficiency threshold is unworkable.
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Open Source was impractical for industrial use back then. Think of it. The Linux development cycle (even though not open source is still a good example) was getting over 70k patch submissions per release just to hunt through that mess for 3k-5k patches of workable code? That efficiency threshold is unworkable.
And yet it still absolutely fucking dominated windows in the server market. That didn't just happen last week, you know.
Re:Now I get why they like open source now! (Score:1)
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But to have an existing commercial product then simply start converting whole sections or most likely all of your project to open source (and at the time there was no legal definition of "partially" OS)? That was just asking too much.
Several companies were able to do it because their codebase was already portable, like when we got Wordperfect Office for Linux. It wasn't asking too much of a competent development team.
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Are you sure they are even linux and not some WSL containerized thingies half the time?
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