Trent W. Buck via luv-talk wrote:
Rohan McLeod via luv-talk wrote:
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/20/09/27/193250/eric-s-raymond-is-microsoft... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
I suppose the question that is raised in the article, on which this report seems to be based; "Last phase of the desktop wars?" (yes also a question !) http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764 Goes to the future of Windows, in an era when desktop /laptop are becoming increasingly irrelevant; and Microsoft starts to consider development and support, as more of a cost, than an income source. This is probably of no interest to most users of the many distributions of Linux , particularly on mobile hardware; but for whatever reason, I seem to find interesting the question of whether: -it will eventually finish up as just a proprietary layer on top of a Linux kernel, ( like Apple on a FreeBSD kernel) or -open-source it and Microsoft moves to just selling support (like Red Hat) or -perhaps they might abandon it altogether regards Rohan McLeod