Comment on Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US

• megopie@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well, on top of the tens of thousands of volunteer developer hours put in to stuff like wine that they built upon.

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• domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And one dude that really wanted to play Nier Automata on Linux.

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• IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You make it seem like Microsoft didn’t do everything they could to kill Linux and Mac.

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Like literally investing in $150 million in Apple in 1997 and porting Office to MacOS to get in front of a possible antitrust trial ahead of Jobs’ return?

    I’m not an MS fanboi, but at least get your facts right if you’re going to make such a claim.

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    • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Okay look at the history. Look at the Macworld introduction to Microsoft Office. The Apple community wasn’t happy about it. Microsoft made a lot of money and kept themselves from being a monopoly. You think they did that out of the kindness of their hearts?

      I bet if we talk about Linux, you’re going to bring up that Microsoft joined the Linux Foundation and completely ignoring their anti competitive practices before that.

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      • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m merely pointing out that your thesis – “You make it seem like Microsoft didn’t do everything they could to kill Linux and Mac.” – is categorically false. Of course no sane business decision in the current economic climate is altruistic, but this is scarcely news.

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• Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Give a Man Code, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Code, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime

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