nixCraft 🐧 on Nostr: Microsoft has used various tactics to delay Linux and even try to destroy it. While ...
Microsoft has used various tactics to delay Linux and even try to destroy it. While it may have supported SCO's lawsuits via proxy method, its current strategy involves buying influence within the Linux Foundation. This demos how corporations like Microsoft, SCO, IBM, and others, driven by greed and control freak natures, have attempted to control Linux. However, the GPL 2.x licenses protecting the Linux kernel have blocked these efforts so far ;)
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