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With an article that covers "From Cancer to Cloud" and beyond, Techrepublic asks: What is Microsoft Doing With Linux? Everything You Need to Know About its Plans for Open Source
'Microsoft and Linux' should be a phrase we're used to hearing by now. Microsoft is a member of not only the Linux Foundation but also the Linux kernel security mailing list... Microsoft is submitting patches to the Linux kernel... And when Microsoft wanted to add container support to Windows, it picked an open-source specification designed originally for [Linux].
Now Azure customers get the same hybrid benefits for Linux support contracts as they do for Windows Server licences; Windows runs Linux binaries; some key Microsoft applications are available on Linux; and new services might be built with Linux.
[...] At the recent Azure Open Day, Kubernetes co-founder and Microsoft corporate vice-president Brendan Burns talked about Microsoft having a deep understanding of Linux and contributing to existing open-source projects based on Linux as well as founding new ones like Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime).
[...] In short, Microsoft 'hearts' Linux.
But forget the idea of throwing away the Windows kernel and replacing it with a Linux kernel, because Microsoft's approach to Linux is far more pragmatic and comprehensive. Although the company is now thoroughly cross-platform, not every application will move to or take advantage of Linux. Instead, Microsoft adopts or supports Linux when the customers are there, or when it wants to take advantage of the ecosystem with open-source projects.
With GNU/Linux increasingly a part of both Windows 10 and Microsoft's cloud offerings, do you prefer to get your Linux from Microsoft, or from a more traditional source?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Monday December 28 2020, @10:33PM
I actually agree with you, but probably not in exactly the sense you intended. English *does* have the right word, it's free. However that word is misused more often than not, to mean gratis instead, which is what leads people to find other synonyms to make things clearer. Not because English lacks the right words, but because English has been so abused for so long by marketers that it doesn't matter.
"Inanimate objects don't have the quality of being free in the "liberated" sense."
Again, that's actually correct, though not quite in the sense you intend (and code is pattern, not object, but it probably doesn't matter in this context.) Of course code can't be free in exactly the same way a person can be free - but a license attached to code can be free (suitable for use by free people) or unfree (not suitable for such use - requiring ones freedom as a condition of use.)
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