On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 02:30:49 -0700, John Corliss <
r9j...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>Seems like extreme naivety to me.
>
>"OPEN-SOURCE DON Linus Torvalds has dismissed "anti-Microsoft stuff" and
>says he isn't worried about the company hijacking Linux.
>
>In a recent interview with ZDNet's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Torvalds
>talked in detail about Microsoft's Linux love-in, and why he doesn't
>believe the company could ever "embrace, extend and extinguish" Linux,
>as it has done with other technologies in the past.
>
>In the past four years, Microsoft has surprised many members of the
>open-source community by introducing things like native OpenSSH in
>Windows 10 and including SUSE Linux, Ubuntu, and Fedora in the Windows
>Store.
>
>The company went further in May this year by releasing a new Windows 10
>Insider Preview build featuring the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2
>(WSL2), which includes a real Linux kernel, enabling users to run more
>Linux software on Windows."
>
>Full article is here:
>
>
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3082376/linus-torvalds-not-worried-microsoft-hijacking-linux
Which just goes to prove my argument that the GPL favours big business
over the little people. Microsoft can comply with the licence and still
make money out of this. Just because they are giving it away for free it
nonetheless makes their overall offering/s more attractive and will
increase sales.
The little people, all those who have contributed one way or another
over many years, and were supportive 'founders' and not the new wave of
'Prodigal Sons' [kiss their arse forgivingly and shower them with
profit] in general will not be able to monetize Linux because the GPL
only favours a certain narrow band business models which are generally
not an option for the little people. Google, another example, makes its
money elsewhere.
Down with the GPL.
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