With microsoft contributing to the kernel does this mean we may see a unix based windows version. Personally I think windows should be unix based as with mac OSX it will greatly increase stability and security. On Tuesday, July 21, 2009, Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2009/7/21 Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> On 07/21/2009 12:04 PM, Keiran Smith wrote: >>> >>> Well looks like us linux users can look forward to some of the >>> instabilities of windows in our Own Operating Systems. What are >>> microsoft thinking >> >> I don't think you will be affected by this code unless you run a virtualized >> Linux guest on a Windows host and if you do that... well, probably you >> already have bigger problems :p > And that could be a problem for us, since the opposite (Windows on top > of linux) isn't that equivalent. > That's because of the hardware coverrage isn't the same. (3D graphics > / raid drivers / others). > > One could say, it will be easier for Linux to live on top of windows. > That way drivers could remains closed sources and linux not a real OS > anymore, just providing few services on top of the real OS. > > While the European Union is presuring to remove out IE from the next > windows bundle, /me think it would have been more valuable to only > keep the very basic hardware support layers from the OS, so everything > else could have been optional. > > At least I can see one way to have the announcement turn into our > favour. It would be to have it compared with other opensourcing > announcement such the AMD/ATI one. Even if the reasons behind have > nothing to be compared, it could present theses as a success story for > the free software development scheme. > That should have be directed to end-users asking them to keep > presuring on hardware vendosr for free software solutions over > proprietary ones. > > Nicolas (kwizart) > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > -- Keiran Smith - Fedora Ambassador / BugZapper - <affix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - Free Software Foundation Associate - <keiran.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - http://keiran-smith.net - Call me on +44 (0) 131 208 4347 -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
