From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Nov 18 15:59:26 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBBEEC48952 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:59:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.70.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD501ACE for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:59:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id A4D7ECB8C9D; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 09:59:25 -0600 (CST) Received: from 128.135.52.6 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Fri, 18 Nov 2016 09:59:25 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <18217.128.135.52.6.1479484765.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 09:59:25 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation? From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: "SOUL_OF_ROOT 55" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal References: In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 15:59:26 -0000 On Thu, November 17, 2016 5:35 pm, SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 wrote: > At its Connect(); 2016 developer event in New York City today, Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation. And the company isn’t joining > just to say it did: Microsoft is joining at the Platinum level, the highest > level of membership, which costs $500,000 annually. John Gossman, architect > on the Microsoft Azure team, will sit on the foundation’s Board of Directors and help underwrite projects. > > reference: > http://venturebeat.com/2016/11/16/microsoft-joins-the-linux-foundation-as-a-platinum-member/ > > > Can this be? Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation? It is well known tactics (maybe this even qualifies as strategy?): If you can not defeat them, then join then, do all necessary to lead them, and lead them into oblivion. Or into the place you want them to be. Mind that MS is in it for money. Nothing else. Not security. (you continue the list of what you expect of the system). And whatever it needs to be done for MS to get more money, MS will do it. One of the indications of this same process was in: RedHat making RHEL Linux less like UNIX, and more like MS Windows: most of the junk is now configured trough GUI, systemd and friends, binary logs, and variety of other stuff that people brought up on UNIX will consider sysadmin's disaster. If you program - and many of us do or did in the past - you know that to solve the problem, you first need to isolate it: find small portion of code, or module where the problem occurs. This becomes much less doable (on sysadmin's level) with most modern Linux incarnations. So, the process of leading Linux into nonexistence definitely has begun, and progresses successfully. We may be just witnessing next big step. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++