[NEWS] Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation, along with other news

[Ahead]

"At its first Connect event in 2013, Microsoft released Visual Studio 2013. In 2014, it announced the open sourcing of .NET, and in 2015, the open sourcing of the Visual Studio Code editor. The big news this year? Microsoft, the company that has built an empire on proprietary, closed-source software, has joined the Linux Foundation as a platinum member.

Microsoft has been a big contributor to Linux over the past several years, primarily focusing on improving support for its Hyper-V hypervisor. Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, said that in becoming a member, "Microsoft is better able to collaborate with the open source community to deliver transformative mobile and cloud experiences to more people.""

Read the full article at Ars Technica

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[Kochieboy]

On a scale of It's to It's Not, how high are we on the happening scale?

[d]

On a scale of It's to It's Not, how high are we on the happening scale?

1

[pefu19]

its probably just a formality, dont expect them to release a linux/unix-based os anytime soon... or ever...

[Frequency]

okay what

[Glass Joe]

looks like we're in the second step of 'embrace, extend, extinguish'

[SubDaWoofer]

On a scale of It's to It's Not, how high are we on the happening scale?

it's

[Daswiruch]

i'm all for anything that supports linux

[joe411]

So... what does this mean? Will Windows files be more compatible with Linux soon?

[Ragequit]

On a scale of It's to It's Not, how high are we on the happening scale?

twenty-five

[Foxscotch]

looks like we're in the second step of 'embrace, extend, extinguish'

in the past, it's only ever worked out in the favor of the general population:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish#Examples
yes, for some time, internet explorer made the internet suck. but now thanks to all of that, we've got the WHATWG, and several browsers that support standards very well, and that are very popular, thanks to the frustration with internet explorer
furthermore, it really just can't apply in this case. how could they extend linux in a way that would allow them to "extinguish" it?
most likely all this means (along with a few other things like releasing a free version of VS and sponsoring development of an openssh port) is that microsoft wants to attract developers of languages other than C# to their platform and language

[Outpact-]

I feel as if Linux is bound to take over technology overtime.