So like, what are the chances of microsoft seeing what they did with dumping explorer and shifting into a chrome forked EDGE:What are the chances they'll do the same with the ENTIRE windows OS and just forking a unix kernel that runs windows executables? Like what motivation do they have to keep windows running? Especially if they can cut costs for supporting new iterations, continually fork linux and charge people for a distro that runs windows apps? I'm thinking EDGE is like the ultimate case study and evidence that they just exit the OS market since it's much more expensive to maintain an OS thats slowly becoming more and more obfuscated?
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>>108515072>>108515110The Windows kernel is mostly fine, it's just that the userland is terrible.
>>108515120>The Windows kernel is mostly fine,Bro they had to make an announcement that they were going back to native apps because they over relied on webapps. I'm not sure if you're referring to like autistic windows where you strip out everything you don't need and use your own interface. But for the average consumer and whoever they actually sell to their shit has gotten abysmal.
>>108515156what are you doing on a technology board?
>>108515156>Bro they had to make an announcement that they were going back to native apps because they over relied on webappsAll of that is userland.
>>108515072There is a very big difference. They gave up on their own browser because google purposely and maliciously makes the web an impossible to catch moving target. Windows however, its downfall is entirely their own making, and the rot that ruined windows would also equally fuck up any linux fork.
>>108515072you can sell free software but if you make it a requirement to pay before user can use your software then that's against the GPL license
>>108515737Does this comply with GPL? Because it's pretty much how I've been using windows for over a decade.
>>108515737>>108515757Just to clarify you don't need to pay to use windows, they limit features, some functionality and you don't have up to date security updates. But you can use core windows without paying indefinitely. So technically speaking I don't think they charge you before you use it. They only really care about corporate licenses anyway.
