[Gllug] Microsoft was distributing Ubuntu

[Chris Jones]

Hi

Richard Jones wrote:
> What would Office-on-Linux achieve?  Linux has a very small share of
> the desktop market, so it would not be a money-spinner.  At the same
> time, it might be the final jigsaw piece in the puzzle for some large
> company or other which wants to switch their business over to Linux

Absolutely. It's only something they'd do as a final resort if they were
already losing significant desktop market share.

> What would a Linux distro (say, for servers) achieve?  Microsoft would
> make no direct revenue selling against free Linux downloads, so they

I suspect people might pay for the power and stability of Linux with
Microsoft's clicky admin stuff on the top (which they could clearly do,
Active Directory is really just a nice interface to LDAP and kerberos
with some additional embrace&extend magic)

> How about some sort of Microsoft Win32-on-Linux hybrid which is often

If anything I'd expect to see it go the other way - they could easily
provide Linuxy userspaces. This seems to be irrelevant in the inevitable
future of virtualisation though.

Cheers,
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