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Microsoft And Linux — A Song Of Mice And Ire

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This new era of Microsoft working cooperatively with Linux not only has a stench of hypocrisy, but raises some major red flags. We’ve all heard the cliched turncoat catchphrase “if you can’t beat them, join them,” but I can’t seem to shake this eerie feeling that Microsoft trying to play a long con. Microsoft was never known for playing friendly and their new-found love for Linux looks to me less like patronage and more like patronizing.

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Comments (9)

Richard ·
"Embrace and extend" is their founder's philosophy. I don't believe it has changed.
gus3 ·
Don't forget "extinguish."
penguinist ·
Once upon a time there was a lion and a lamb. For years the lion had been feasting on lambs and knew that they made a tasty treat.

But now the lion says that he loves the lamb and asks the lamb to dance. Could it be that the lion has changed and now just wants to be friends.

What should the lamb do?
dotmatrix ·
>What should the lamb do?

Lions will be lions. Is it more ethical to cheer the lamb not eaten or the lion not starved?

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However, Microsoft is neither lion nor lamb... Microsoft is more like the 'Nothing' in the Neverending Story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrG-lsrXKRM

...

Microsoft want to set the boundaries and kill the hopes and dreams of those who wish to live free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sEZmMeH96Q
mbaehrlxer ·
you all need to go see zootopia. the lion can become an actuary, and the lamb an astronaut.

greetings, eMBee.
flufferbeer ·
@penguinist,

> Once upon a time there was a lion and a lamb. ...

Seems to me that there already are VERY APPROPRIATE English-language sayings having animals repesenting M$'s "relationship" with Linux. For M$'s "Embrace" of Linux, we have A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing. For M$'s perpetual attempts to Extend and eventuallly Extinguish Linux, we have A Leopard Doesn't Change Its Spots.

2c
seatex ·
MS has every STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) known, but still wants to sleep with you.

How's that for a different analogy?
gus3 ·
Or, the first one is free (it comes with the system), but that's how you get hooked.

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