Russell Coker wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 September 2020 11:29:34 AM AEST Rohan McLeod via luv-talk wrote:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/20/09/27/193250/eric-s-raymond-is-microsoft -switching-to-a-linux-kernel-that-emulates-windows There would be obvious benefits to doing that, it's been the case for years. Spending a billion dollars a year on kernel development (a general consensus of the cost of a general purpose OS kernel) is a drain on any business as well as an opportunity cost of what those programmers might otherwise be doing.
But MS has a long history of NIH. Remember when they defined TCP as "Transport Control Protocol"?
Russell; you might need to remind me what "NIH" stands for; also closer reading of above reveals it is just a secondhand version of http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764 which is probably more important for the future of Windows than Linux. Perhaps the "desktop wars" themselves have become archaic in and era; when "tech" has come to mean not much more than apps on mobile phones ? regards Rohan McLeod