Linux Receives 20th Birthday Video from Microsoft
Linux will be 20 years old on August 26.
Microsoft has apparently submitted a birthday video just in time to the Linux Foundation, which posted the video on YouTube.
The video takes a very casual approach to the battle that has had an serious tone since the mid 1990s, and has sailed through especially tough claims of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who described Linux as cancer back in 2001 and repeatedly noted that Linux is violating Microsoft's patents. However, the casual tone in this video is friendly and even ends in offering Linux a truce. Can Microsoft and Linux co-exist? Microsoft thinks so.
At least on this level, Microsoft admits that it was wrong to consider Linux' networking ideas as "childish", and concedes that there is bickering going on still today. However, this virtual birthday cake is a nice gesture that surely paints a how-cute-smile on your face. As mean as Microsoft has been, this video is a nice touch.
The end result?
Linux, without any marketing or advertising resources now dominates the technological biosphere: Mobile phones, robotics, supercomputers, embedded systems, routers, switches, web servers, navigation systems, and a little thing called the Internet.
No wonder Microsoft now wants to kiss up.
Jerry and Bill, anyone?
imagine a world where Windows and Linux and Apple and Other OS live together in harmony.
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
HA HA
"User-submitted video from The Linux Foundation Video Site"
The cake is a lie !
The cake is a lie !
The cake is a lie !
But seriously though, Arch Linux and Windows XP get along just fine on my computer. And Virtualbox is a God-sent for a quick ~5 seconds restore/suspend.
On Linux you can rename files with *, ?, " characters, don't have to worry about fragmentation and you don't need an antivirus to slow you down. If you try to delete a file while it's in use, you don't get that stupid error that "the file is being used by another person or program" crap. You can even delete a movie while you watch it, and it will run fine until you close the media player ! Having been a Windows user for a very long time, that feature is just awesome in my book. I've used different Linux flavours as THE main OS on my computer for the past 2 years or so, AND COUNTING.
I suggest you give it a shot. You may just like it.
I sure as hell hope not. Competition is healthy. I want these companies to be even more pissed at each other and cause one another to innovate more and more.
Would prefer Linux and MS work together towards solid platforms that would take away market share from Apple/MACs.
Yes, please take market share away from Media Access Control.
And yes, for those who support it, you can't say that there is no security vulnerabilities, neither can Microsoft. But point being, they don't go pulling their pants down in front of everyone EXPECTING not to get shot in the face.
companies pissed at each other will sue eacher rather than innovate just like the apple vs all major android makers thing thats going on.
The under-informed spreading misinformation. Also, 0/5 stars for your horrible analogy.
It's a know fact that Linux has always been, and will continue to be, the safest most reliable operating system ever. Windows will never come close to the security level that Linux has attained.
The reason is quite simple: The source code can be inspected by the world-wide community that supports it.
If you want to compare security vulnerabilities between Windows and Linux, Windows is a clear looser with an unprecedented record of breaches.
The end result?
Linux, without any marketing or advertising resources now dominates the technological biosphere: Mobile phones, robotics, supercomputers, embedded systems, routers, switches, web servers, navigation systems, and a little thing called the Internet.
No wonder Microsoft now wants to kiss up.