Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:25:47 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> Subject: Re: Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation? Message-ID: <20161118142547.9cd6703cd95036fa147d6918@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20161118140210.35df746a@archlinux.localdomain> References: <CAN7_dzdQ9yQNdm5_FbqqkQdJPYXhcYzFMBiCZsPbDiUge7j%2Bmw@mail.gmail.com> <20161118113224.20964d7d.freebsd@edvax.de> <747a871c-4d34-7c06-0c04-4650f31bb6ce@FreeBSD.org> <20161118120740.cbaf9f31a85b2b19211f5d82@sohara.org> <20161118140210.35df746a@archlinux.localdomain>
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On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:02:10 +0100 Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 12:07:40 +0000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > >On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:44:07 +0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > >> Microsoft in its aspect as the global cloud computing company is > >> really quite different from Microsoft in its aspect as the PC > >> desktop operating system company. > > > > Yes instead of trying to ensure that every computer you can buy > >runs Windows, that every corporate email system runs on Exchange etc. > >and everybody has to pay to stay up to date, they want to ensure that > >as much of your data as possible lives on their servers so you have to > >keep paying to get at it with rented applications. It's still a > >lock-in strategy. > > I'm still less an advocate for Windows or clouds, than already not an > advocate for systemd. However, why should a company provide something > for free as in beer to other companies, who will use the service to > make money? You dislike Microsoft? So do I. I dislike this company for > several reasons, but I wouldn't blame them for a valid business model. I'm not blaming them, simply observing what they're doing and that they haven't changed all that much. I won't be buying because I'd rather own the hardware that holds my data but that's my personal preference. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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