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Comment What, me worry? (Score 5, Insightful) 431

In order for the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish to happen, Microsoft would have to release a version of Linux that then gets used by most existing Linux users, enough that other distributions then give up, then Microsoft does as well.

In contrast, adding Linux to windows as an "app" is not going to do anything to the existing Linux user base.

So to answer the question...No, we do not need to worry about Microsoft damaging the future of Linux.

Comment Re:Why no link to the catalog? How to access this? (Score 2) 60

I know others have posted about how for find it, but this blog spam type reporting is way too common on sites that should not be doing it. A typical article will describe some new feature or service, with no link to that feature or service, just links to other articles describing it. I know how to use google, but so does the author. If you are writing an article on the internet describing something else on the internet, give us the damn link in the article!

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