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Old 12th March 2016
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Originally Posted by sacerdos_daemonis View Post
It is also possible they see the value of using the work volunteers and companies have done over the years to make money for themselves. Co-operation with Novell, which puts out Suse; co-operation with Ubuntu; now their own Debian system. It is probably a simple matter of Linux users having grown to a large enough number for Microsoft to see it as a viable market that they want a piece of or perhaps even hope to take over entirely. Either way, they see an opportunity to make money.
Plus, Bill Gates isn't part of the company any more, and neither is Steve "Linux is cancer" Balmer (after almost 15 years, I still can't get over the incredible insulting wrongness of that comment btw, both for people spending their free time developing software, as for cancer patients).

New people replaced them. New people with different, less extreme, ideas it seems ...
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