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Will they lobby for laws that prohibit Linux or make it difficult to install? What actions might they take in the future?

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[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Also worth noting that they own Github, which puts them in a position to disrupt a huge amount of Linux infrastructure if they ever feel like it. They might also pull some weird move like trying to buy Canonical or something like that.

[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is a good point. I've been trying to make it clear in a lot of my predictions that Microsoft doesn't want or even need full control, just enough. They don't even need to do anything particular here other than continue to manage github with their current level of incompetence.

Was trying to source an article here, wasn't there just an outage or some other major issue a few days ago? Anyways ...

[–] SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 days ago

I think what's missing is the author of pulseaudio and systemd among other "modern" Linux tech (I.e. adopted by many popular distros) is a Microsoft employee.