Re: Likelihood and consequence of MS distributing 'windblows' as a GUI built on Unix/ Linux ?

On 14/12/12 08:40, Rohan McLeod wrote:

Assembled Illuminati ! Whilst following the thread: "Re: Latest generation laptops with Windows 8 preinstalled, EFI mess.."; the idea occurred that MS might eventually replace or augment Windows; by building it as a GUI plus a Unix / Linux kernel, in the way Apple, now builds the Mac OS as a GUI plus a highly configured FreeBSD kernel (or whatever); is it: 1/ possible 2/ likely and if it happened what would be the consequences ?

regards Rohan McLeod

Unlikely - GPL issues. BSD however...