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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">When I was leaving DEC in 1999 one of the last things that happened to me was the engineering manager of the DEC Unix group taking me to the cafeteria and asking the question:<br><br>"When will Linux get to the point were we can migrate all of our customers to it and get rid of all our operating system engineers?"<br><br>I told him that I did not know when that would happen, but it would happen.<br><br></span>These days I would have a more nuanced answer.
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On 07/17/2021 9:37 AM Chuck Payne via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:
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The Enemy of my Enemy is my friend. I think MS saw how so many companies move over to Linux, that the hobby OS wasn't going way. Red Hat last I heard was 6 Billion.
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<br>I am going to take a look at, just for Shits and Grins. I am laughing because I remember the "Halloween Letters", remember those.
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Look at this way, this is them eating their cake.
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There is now solid helium in hell.
<a href="https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner</a>
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