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Hell has truly got frostbite -- Microsoft has released a Linux distribution...

Is it just technological progress, or was Ballmer holding the Big Softie back?

He seemed to hate Linux with a passion... protecting the franchise, I suppose.

3 posted on 04/16/2018 4:37:25 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")

To: Pearls Before Swine

Remember what happened to CPM??

8 posted on 04/16/2018 5:03:39 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown

To: Pearls Before Swine

> Is it just technological progress, or was Ballmer holding the Big Softie back? He seemed to hate Linux with a passion... protecting the franchise, I suppose.

Both. It -is- real technological progress, and Ballmer was a damned obsessive idiot. He was completely, utterly, unable to fathom anything other than "Windows Uber Alles". He made a lot of terrible business decisions in the early 2000's that almost killed Microsoft's ability to move forward, and it took pushing him out to get the company moving back to a point where they could make progress again.

17 posted on 04/16/2018 5:30:21 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")

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