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by endperform 1274 days ago
Agreed. I laugh every time someone posts it. If MS wanted to kill off Linux, Linux would be long dead by now.
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> If MS wanted to kill off Linux, Linux would be long dead by now.

How do you envision they could do it? Doesn't seem plausible to me, given the distributed nature of the development of Linux.

BTW, they actually tried:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

Just totally failed.

Buy Canonical.

I don't think MS actually cares if Linux exists, if most people pay a Windows license fee to run it.