Re: GuhNoo: World's Biggest Technical Leecher

On 4/13/2024 4:59 AM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

Le 10-04-2024, DFS <nospam@dfs.com> a écrit :

On 4/10/2024 10:29 AM, Lying Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:
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Microslop, the world's richest company, is also the world's biggest
leecher:

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The biggest technical mooch in history is GuhNoo freeloading off the
design, names and functionality of Unix.

 As I don't really know if you are seriously mistaken or trolling, I'll
answer seriously.
 They were mostly following a norm, the POSIX norm. There is nothing
wrong in following a norm. That's what you do when you program in C. You
follow the norm. Like that, you can use any C compiler for your code.
And when you share your code, you don't have to tell which compiler they
need to use.

There was no POSIX when Stallman began his scam.

As the POSIX norm is a little bit outdated, Linux don't always follow it
(and it pisses off some BSD users who can be stuck in the past). When
one says Linux is an UNIX, it's in the broad sense, not in the exact
sense because it's not certified (it has been once years ago but it's
expensive and useless now).
 

"Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete
Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and
give it away free to everyone who can use it." - Wretched Richard
Stallman Sep 27 1983

 Yes, exactly. He chose to follow the norm, not to steal the code.

There was no norm to follow, and to be clear I never claimed they stole code (which I doubt they could've gotten their grubby hands on anyway).

He failed in his mission, of course, but thanks to Torvalds his dream
of being an OS parasite and "commercial software killer" was realized.

 The OS parasite is the future of your lovely Microsoft foundation. I said
it before, you believe I'm dreaming, but I'll explain it again because all
of the evidences point to it.

It doesn't, actually.

The big money for Microsoft is in the cloud, not in the Windows OS
installed on personal computers.

Big money?  MS generated $100 billion+ in yearly revenue long before they got into cloud computing.
most recent quarterly results:
Gross revenue $62.0 billion:
  * Productivity and Business Processes $19.2 billion
  * Intelligent Cloud $25.9 billion
  * More Personal Computing $16.9 billion
They also said "Microsoft Cloud revenue is $33.7 billion" - CFO Amy Hood
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2024-q2/press-release-webcast
 > It means: Azure for the companies and Microsoft 365 for everyone. For
 > that, you need only a browser, not a full OS.
"The Network is the Computer", Sun Microsystems 1984
The Chromebook style of computing is fine for children, but very few adults like it.
 > And the browser is Edge. Which is not a real Microsoft browser.
 > It's a Microsoft GUI running Chromium.
By that standard, GNU is not a real operating system.
 From what I've read, Edge is often considered the best browser on Windows.  It's actually hard to find complaints about it (other than privacy issues).
But:
"Microsoft Edge is the AI-powered browser."
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge?ep=313&form=MA13M0&es=40
AI = ugh

And they'll do the same with Windows. It's obvious.

cola wackos have made that claim for decades: "The next version of Windows will probably run on a Linux/BSD kernel!"
All I can say is:  Keep hope alive!
MS-hating Linux goons have also been proclaiming "MS is doomed" for decades, too.  But as I've noted before: their world will fade to black LONG before Microsoft dies.

It will be far less
expensive for them to run only their GUI on a Linux kernel than to
support a full OF. Linux gives already the possibility to choose your
own Window Manager, there is nothing to adapt for it. Twenty years ago,
it was really difficult to find Linux drivers when you bought some
hardware. It's not the case anymore. I know, for printers it's not that
true, but printers are difficult to use with Windows, too (not when you
buy them, on the long run).
 So everything is ready for Microsoft. And the first step for this has
already been taken. It's named WSL.

You may be confused.
WSL is nothing more than a Windows application: a well-designed and well-integrated (into Windows Terminal) lightweight virtual machine application that currently is dedicated to running a Linux environment.
But MS has had virtual machines for nearly 16 years.  Does running FreeBSD in Windows Hyper-V mean Windows will soon be running the BSD kernel?  No.  There's very little difference between that and WSL, except MS also distributes a Linux kernel to make WSL easy to setup.

Really, I'm not saying what I'm hopping because I'm not that sure it's
really a good thing for me. I'm saying what everything show.

That's what it shows YOU.  I'm not buying it, at all.  It's too much work for little or no gain.