Article - The Linux Foundation is Not About Linux

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[speculation]
Expect the next decade to report that Microsoft created Linux and championed its acceptance into the computing world... Minor players will be phased out of history books...

I can easily see what's in bold, even before the next decade comes to conclusion. "Created", may be a harder sell within that same time period.

In some ways, for a lot of "normies" it took an entity like MS to bring Linux out of the shadows. Not many people knew about Linux (probably still quite a few don't, even today), some probably don't even know that Android is Linux or a bunch of their "smart" devices typically are Linux based. I didn't even know about the existences of Linux until the beginnings of this decade and that was only because I saw a couple of tech buddies of mine had it dual booted on one of their laptops and were running the laptop while they were troubleshooting some stuff for my family. I didn't even know about it during the majority of the "Ballmer" years, shoot, I thought Gates was still the main man calling all the shots back then, not that he took some distance away from the company.

So, I can easily see that being sold, especially for a lot of people if MS hadn't been focusing on it so much, they would never have known about it's existence (as I didn't for the longest time).

[TWPonKubuntu]

I shall remember for those who are too young or who still choose to drink the M$ koolaid...

I still have my Redhat boot diskette, V 6.1 and it was not even my first Linux test. I then drank the koolaid and used M$ until XP was "retired" and I went back to Linux.

"Get off my lawn, Punk!"