"Embrace and extend" Linux? [LWN.net]

"Embrace and extend" Linux?

Posted Oct 29, 2004 15:23 UTC (Fri) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Steve Ballmer's "executive letter" by man_ls
Parent article: Steve Ballmer's "executive letter"

What'd be the problem with M$ "embracing and extending" Linux?
They can't do anything about the kernel, that's GPL'd. The rest is a matter of dynamically linking with Wine.

The whole idea sort of presupposes that Microsoft is capable of understanding what Linux is all about in the first place, and somehow I doubt they can.

There's a reason why the Mac's MultiFinder's credits once said:
"Incompatibilities: our developers.
Special effects: Microsoft."
I doubt that reason has quietly vanished since then.

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