[dayglored]

This question won't be answered for a while. But the pundits will pontificate endlessly. Because that's what they do best...

[dayglored]

Windows and Linux, more opinions ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It will make it very convenient to get root.

[Paine in the Neck]

Cooperate. Coopt. Corrupt. Control.

[dayglored]

So whom do you trust?

Richard Stallman                     or                     Mark Shuttleworth

[palmer]

Stallman is correct, the only software you should run is software you compiled yourself. MS Windows is a black box full of crap and any 'built-in" unix will be a bastardization.

Besides MS did this same exact thing in the 90's, then pulled the rug out. They have to pretend to include linux compatibility to get some mainly server software ported over but it will end up bastardized #ifdef MS_CRAP

[ctdonath2]

“Embrace, extend, extinguish” has long been Microsoft’s policy for killing competition.

[Dalberg-Acton]

I ditched Microsoft and now use Linux Mint. Like a jilted lover, MS is now stalking me.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Personally I think MS is focusing on cloud/Azure (which is where Nadella came from). Viewed from that perspective the embrace of Linux makes sense since they don’t care what OS you run in Azure as long as you run something and of course pay them.

I don’t think there is some nefarious embrace of death conspiracy afoot.

[familyop]

Linux developers and the administrators of some of the most well liked distributions, at least, have maintained readiness all along for the kind of move that some are suspecting. The same goes for developers of the tens of thousands of free packages.

Linux is amazingly easy to download, install and get running now—even Debian. Very automatic compared to the way it was during the ‘90s and very quick to get running.

And Linux provides all that I need, although I prefer NetBSD because of its extra stability, security and usefulness with more platforms (quite a bit of manual user configuration required). For security in running *BSD, though, most end-users might prefer OpenBSD for its ease of installation with even more security as a default instead of needing to add it manually.

[familyop]

Besides, remember the SCO-Linux disputes? MS was said to have thrown quite a bit of support to SCO. See which side won?

[familyop]

It should be emphasized that Stallman did not say that he expects Linux to be extinguished. The article quoted his explanation.

[RebelTex]

History since 1980 gives Stallman 90% probability of being correct about MS planning destruction of Linux.

That’s my 2 cents, LOL.

(Actually, I think it is an absolute certainty.)