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by PeCaN 3733 days ago
What would they gain though? NT is a pretty good kernel with very broad hardware support.

If anything, they'd just make NT fully POSIX-compliant. They'd get the same benefit with a fraction of the effort of porting Windows-the-GUI to Linux.
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asveikau 3733 days ago
> If anything, they'd just make NT fully POSIX-compliant.

They did this with the POSIX subsystem, and the ability to do this was in mind very early in NT history. They ripped it out in Windows 8, IIRC. I guess it's back.

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yazaddaruvala 3733 days ago
> What would they gain?

Long term deprecation of their work force? Reduction in operating costs?

Why pay people to support / extend a kernel / hardware drivers when Linus will do it for free?

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