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Much_Writing_7575 t1_j6bw74e wrote

Reply to comment by wowmuchdoggo in Microsoft to Stop Sell Selling Windows 10 Downloads on January 31st by ObreroJimenez

Good luck with that because Microsoft is working on buying out Linux and FOSS generally and they plan to have that hostile takeover done within ten years.

The way this works is they start making donations and contributing code to a FOSS project. Then once the project becomes dependent on their donations, they withhold the donations until the organization is forced to sell out to them. Then they disband the organization and patent all of their assets.

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tripplebeamteam t1_j6bzonh wrote

You can’t “Buy out” Linux. Maybe what you’re describing could happen with a particular distro, but there will always be devs who create true FOSS and resist corporate interference.

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wowmuchdoggo t1_j6dqkl0 wrote

Pleas explain to me how Microsoft is going to buy out free and open source files lmao. You sound like a Microsoft fan boy with no actual idea of what they are talking about 😉

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