Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:02:10 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation? Message-ID: <20161118140210.35df746a@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20161118120740.cbaf9f31a85b2b19211f5d82@sohara.org> References: <CAN7_dzdQ9yQNdm5_FbqqkQdJPYXhcYzFMBiCZsPbDiUge7j%2Bmw@mail.gmail.com> <20161118113224.20964d7d.freebsd@edvax.de> <747a871c-4d34-7c06-0c04-4650f31bb6ce@FreeBSD.org> <20161118120740.cbaf9f31a85b2b19211f5d82@sohara.org>
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On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:07:40 +0000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:44:07 +0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> Microsoft in its aspect as the global cloud computing company is >> really quite different from Microsoft in its aspect as the PC >> desktop operating system company. > > Yes instead of trying to ensure that every computer you can buy >runs Windows, that every corporate email system runs on Exchange etc. >and everybody has to pay to stay up to date, they want to ensure that >as much of your data as possible lives on their servers so you have to >keep paying to get at it with rented applications. It's still a >lock-in strategy. I'm still less an advocate for Windows or clouds, than already not an advocate for systemd. However, why should a company provide something for free as in beer to other companies, who will use the service to make money? You dislike Microsoft? So do I. I dislike this company for several reasons, but I wouldn't blame them for a valid business model. They need to provide customer support to those who pay for their cloud service. To ensure that issues aren't caused by third party software, part of the service is software. Isn't it good, if they try to provide this software for different operating systems? Customer connectivity is done by reliability. Most customers aren't idealists, they want something commercial doing its job. Regards, Ralf
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