On Wed, 2022-07-13 at 15:49 -0500, hal wrote: > On July 13, 2022 3:31:37 PM CDT, Syeed Ali <syeed...@syeedali.com> > wrote: > :: Microsoft has a great interest in embracing Linux via WSL with the > :: intent to obsolete the need to dual boot. With many critical > :: distributions and software requiring systemd, it only makes sense > to > :: make sure that WSL has complete support; indeed better support > than on > :: Linux. Combined Windows and WSL can thereby be extended nicely in > ways > :: pure Linux cannot. > :: > :: _______________________________________________ > :: Dng mailing list > :: Dng@lists.dyne.org > :: https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > Microsoft has only an interest in not having any competition. from > DOS, to Internet Explore vs. Netscape, to SCO Linux. Every few years > they try again. this is all just another example. > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
I'm sure that is correct. M$ were obviously behind the SCO thing. Thank heavens for groklaw - without Pamela Jones, SCO's legal action might have succeeded, and we might now be paying them for linux licences (or using something else). I do find it interesting that Red Hat haven't commented on Poettering's departure as yet (or at least, I haven't seen any comment from them so far). M$ and IBM haven't always been rivals - worth remembering that OS/2 was originally a joint venture. Then they decided to go their separate ways and fork the OS/2 project: IBM carried on developing OS/2; M$ hacked their version into Windows 95 (remember they took over the front page of the Times to advertise the launch of it?). (Shame that OS/2 vanished off the radar. I used it daily for a number of years: it was infinitely better than windows.) Obviously something's going on. I guess time will tell what it is. For now, it at least seems extremely good news that systemd is now firmly tarred with the M$ brush. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
