Microsoft Engineer: Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible'

An anonymous reader writes: Speaking at ChefCon, Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich talked briefly about the prospect of some or all of Windows going open source. He said, "It's definitely possible. It's a new Microsoft." Russinovich acknowledged the reality that most developers and IT workers have embraced open source software to run some or all of their machines, and that means Microsoft needs to adapt. He also noted that Microsoft is beginning to adopt a strategy familiar to open source vendors: give away the software, and then sell support and related products. "It lifts them up and makes them available for our other offerings, where otherwise they might not be. If they're using Linux technologies that we can't play with, they can't be a customer of ours."

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BWAH HA HA HA HA HA

[mrflash818]

*thud*

-- The Princess Bride

Re:It's that damn cancer!

[bulled]

But really, if real programmers ever got their hands on Windows under a GPL, they would just strip out anything of value and add it to Linux. Really.

So that kernel would look remarkably like the one we have today :)

Re:It's that damn cancer!

[binarylarry]

OR we could add Systemd to Windows in an unholy marriage of awful!

Winning!