Microsoft will release preview of Edge for Linux in October – Computer – News

I suspect this is mainly for business users. Microsoft software on Linux is known for having enormous amounts of telemetry, take Powershell and Defender as an example. Indeed, few Linux users will voluntarily install this software on their systems for this reason alone. Microsoft under Gates and Ballmer waged a war on free software and open standards, the Linux community has not forgotten this, hence the distrust.

The free software community is concerned that Microsoft is working on an EEE (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish). Microsoft is buying up all kinds of platforms and tools (Github, NPM) that facilitate free software development and in addition, it is currently busy buying large amounts of their own software, some of which are proprietary (DirectX12, VScode) and some open source (Powershell, OSScode). in the Linux software ecosystem.

The only weird thing that Microsoft has tried so far is that they sent a patch to the Linux kernel that put an interface for DirectX12 into the kernel. Fortunately, this has been blocked by kernel maintainers who were concerned that this could be an EEE and they refuse to have connectors in the mainline kernel for proprietary software for that reason.

Microsoft is targeting Linux and free software development around Linux. I don’t know what the ultimate goal of all of this is. But I am afraid they will rival everyone and make them dependent on their proprietary software to gain power in this industry. It is currently very difficult not to use Microsoft software as a software developer.

[Reactie gewijzigd door Omega op 22 september 2020 21:07]

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