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by JayHost 3745 days ago
There's always another Microsoft hurdle.

Recently Windows 10 showing Tomb Raider advertisements. Windows 7 upgrading to 10 without permission.

This article claims Microsoft is embracing open source in a way that is not just to extend and distinguish.

In my limited knowledge it looks like adaptation. They tried to extinguish; didn't work They tried to extend and extinguish. Now they have to embrace.

Not so fun fact. "Microsoft paid a guy named Ken Brown to write a book saying Linus stole Linux from my MINIX 1 system." - Tanenbaum

It feels a lot like an abusive relationship people don't know how to walk away from.