Linux is kill
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What's your excuse now? Linux is kill.
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/microsoft-open-source-windows-definitely-possible/
>>47344250
Open Source, perhaps, at vague possible future time, but free? I doubt it. Linux is alive and well, thank you very much.
>>47344250
Awesome, now exploits can come out twice as fast.
Microsoft won't be killing anything, unless they made windows FOSS.
Open source =/= Free Software
>>47344250
HOLY FUCKING SHIT HOW DOES THAT WORK
>>47344250
>>47344280
>Comparing a kernel to an operating system
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Linux
>>47344304
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#FOSS
>>47344250
Microsoft already has agreements in place to share the source for Windows, that's how the 2000 source code leaked.
The only real game changer would be if it goes full FOSS like they did with .NET.
Even if it is open-sourced, it won't suddenly become a better platform for development and tinkering.
This might change a few years down the line after geeks have started taken steps to make it more geek-compatible (assuming the license allows anyone to modify Windows), but Linux won't be going anywhere soon.
>>47344327
Stallman pls.
10th thread
the same false news
another faggot op
>>47344321
Physics and magnetic flux stuff
>>47344389
It is not a Unix-like operating system, both Linux and *BSD will continue to exist.
>>47344327
autist
>>47344389
Electromagnets
>So many companies—so many Microsoft customers—are now relying on open source code. And that means Microsoft must embrace it too.
>Microsoft must embrace it too.
>embrace
yeah, when they stop making money from NT kernels, they'll drop windows into open sores cesspool. By then it will be worthless to everyone.
>>47344439
>embrace
you just got that now?
why do you think microshit has a github now? they are trying to make a winshit FOSS community to keep their shitty OS afloat.
There is no excitement in this until they post a repository. Once I can git clone Windows then we can talk about the threat it poses to open source software.
>>47344439
Where will they get their shekels from?
they could always just allow modifications and sharing of them, but at the same time prohibit selling them and require license to run any, even modified version.
>>47344655
I dunno, Xbox? Maybe those phones nobody has.
>>47344655
Windows 10 is basically free. Think about that.
>>47344655
doesn't really make a difference shekel-wise
>>47344687
I bet they still make money from new computers with Windows preinstalled
I would really love to see XP open sourced. XP is a great OS and with it open source people can continue security updates and etc and create forks of it. Obviously M$ isn't going to do this because muh profit
>>47344720
>what is support
>what is enteprise
>what are ads
>what is office
>what is azure
>>47344725
>XP is a great OS
What the fuck?
Errors out the ass 24/7, slow as a snail, blue screens, ugly as shit, barely fucking works ever, what else is even there that it doesn't suck at.
>>47344770
Yeah bullshit. maybe you dont know how to use a computer instead.
I never ever got a bluescreen on my pc running xp in the 3 years I used it
>>47344655
Licensing, too. Opensource =! free. Options to spend time perusing source code and writing critiques to send to Microsoft does not mean that they will not come after you for changing, compiling, modifying, burning, and installing modified and unmodified versions of their software.
Even if they go 'open source' I highly doubt it will be free, ever. That just would not work for their business model, manufacturers could get one copy and clone it too all the new computers without explicit permission, if Microsoft charges the company extra, they go to the store and by one for retail price. Individuals could copy and change as they choose without being charged for it.
>>47344770
Obviously you haven't used a clean install of XP. remove all your adware and whatever the fuck else you had running in the background on your 256mb PC and it is the fastest Windows OS yet
>>47344807
>xp
>3 years
underage pls
>>47344770
Git gud
>>47344743
is that you?
and are you a man?
>>47344855
Want to find out?
;)
>>47344881
I'm mildly interested, yes.
>http://www.wired.com/2015/04/microsoft-open-source-windows-definitely-possible/
>Open Source Means More Than Free
>>47344916
>Open Source Means More Than Free
?
More than gratis, I assume.
>>47344922
It was a joke about Erik Raymond preferring the term Open Source over free, I'm sure the article meant gratis
>>47344831
Shut the fuck up.
I clean installed and fully updated that piece of shit multiple times using the recovery dvd and not a random injected iso on my core2duo-2GB Ram laptop back then, and what eventually saved me was turning it fucking Hackintosh. Zero problems for a whole year, imagine that. Win XP is the worst OS I've ever used and I've tried Vista and Lubuntu.
Then windows 7 was decent.
Fuck XP. Fuck you losers, fuck this "WinXP was great" meme.
Kill yourselves.
>>47344959
>Manufacturers recovery DVD with muh bloat
>Not full clean install
XP is great, I still run it in VMs and on computers with <1gb ram or <2ghz because it is light as fuck.
Microsoft wants to be the new Google.
They probably want Windows to be the new Android.
>>47344976
>Recovery DVD contains programs alongside initial OS installation
That's on a separate disc and I never used it. Stop.
>>47344318
Go away Stallman
>>47344450
>it didn't happen with Presto
One can only hope.
>>47344250
So infinite energy generation has already been discovered
>>47344330
>2000 source code leaked.
Really? Then why isn't wine better?
>>47346182
>Battery
>Infinite Energy Generation
>>47344304
>Awesome, now exploits can come out twice as fast.
You know it's not hard to access the source already.
>>47344321
Here's a clue
Magnets add energy to the system
>>47346182
Magnets don't last forever
>>47344250
Of course it's "possible," the source exists, after all.
They'll never do it though. Aside from that, guess what would happen if it DID? You think people would just go to Windows because it doesn't cost anything? Fuck no. They'd use the source to add all the software and hardware compatibility to Linux that it never got natively. Linux would be able to load your Windows drivers and run your Windows applications flawlessly. Probably faster than they did on full Windows. It would usher in the year of the Linux Desktop without fail.
>>47344250
>Changing the source model will make Linux® users switch to Windows® without a second thought
Have you MET the average Linux® fag?
>>47344250
>the possibility of open sourcing a far inferior OS will kill linux
kek, M$tard
>>47344250
>Linux is kill.
Desktop GNU/Linux still only has 1.5% market share.
You cannot kill that which has no life.
