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Debconf 2016 Welcomes... Microsoft!

posted by martyb on Friday April 15 2016, @04:56AM   
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The annual Debian developers conference, debconf 16, is taking place July 2-9 in Cape Town, South Africa, featuring for the first time ever Microsoft as a silver sponsor.

This seems consistent with the strategy, that pessimists may define EEE (embrace, extend, extinguish), of seeking close integration with the GNU/Linux system.

The move, from a traditionally hostile company that recently started showing enthusiasm towards open source software, is causing a mixture of derision and opposition in the community. As the grey beards in the IT community might recall, most of Microsoft partners, from IBM to the humble dev, tend to end up screwed in the long term. Will GNU/Linux be the exception?

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• Not GNU/Linux (Score: 4, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Friday April 15 2016, @08:06AM

  by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday April 15 2016, @08:06AM (#332124) Journal

  As the grey beards in the IT community might recall, most of Microsoft partners, from IBM to the humble dev, tend to end up screwed in the long term. Will GNU/Linux be the exception?

  It's Debian which partners with Microsoft. Not GNU/Linux.

  And I don't think Debian still needs Microsoft to end up screwed in the long term; they already managed to enter that path on their own (unless Microsoft already secretly had its hands in those Debian decisions). Microsoft might speed up the demise, though.

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  The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

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