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The Windows 9 Dilemma

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I have no pity (Score: 2, Interesting)

by hyper@pipedot.org on 2014-08-30 14:52 (#2RWY)

They dug this hole for themselves. Getting out will be rough. Perhaps it is they they jumped onto the linux-on-the-desktop and just give up on Windows.

Re: I have no pity (Score: 1, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-30 16:26 (#2RWZ)

The put all of their efforts into the WINE project and release Winux. That'd be pretty sweet actually.

Re: I have no pity (Score: 1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-08-30 16:49 (#2RX1)

Careful...that sounds about as crazy and Apple-like that they might try it.

Of course, I suspect MS would realize very quickly that the GPL is a very different beast than the BSD license. If they wanted to go this route, they'd either need to GPL a good chunk of it, or else go the same route Apple did and grab a BSD and show it the meaning of rugburn.

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2014-08-31 03:26 Funny +1 hyper@pipedot.org

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Marked as [Not Junk] by bryan@pipedot.org on 2015-01-03 10:57