[dayglored]

I've been saying and posting for years (you can check my FR comments for the last decade) that Microsoft should just rip out the NT kernel/codebase and replace it with either BSD Unix or Linux.

This is not a new concept. But it's a risky one; not for Microsoft, but for the Open Source Linux community.

Would it improve Windows? Quite possibly.

Would it kill off Linux as a Windows-independent OS? Quite possibly.

Embrace - Extend - Extinguish

[Openurmind]

I think you are right on the money here. And after open source is extinguished they will make it proprietary and their own effectively STEALING it, eliminating all competition, creating another monopoly, and then they will start charging for it. I don’t think they deserve the chance to try this. Preemptive legal license restrictions need to be in place to protect the kernel from proprietary assimilation by the MS Borg.

What I’m worried about is that while it is linux, they will make it proprietary linux that open source linux apps will not function with or reverse. Basically stealing linux and putting their own proprietary passkey on it in violation of the open source license. Who has the power to fight it? Yep... the license needs to be reaffirmed and strengthened now before this goes any further.

This needs to be nipped in the bud.

[Boogieman]

"Would it kill off Linux as a Windows-independent OS? Quite possibly."