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Microsoft PowerShell Goes Open Source and Lands On Linux and Mac (pcworld.com)
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it is open sourcing PowerShell, its system administration, scripting, and configuration management tool that has been a default part of Windows for several years. The company says it will soon release PowerShell on Mac and Linux platforms. PCWorld reports: The company is also releasing alpha versions of PowerShell for Linux (specifically Ubuntu, Centos and Redhat) and Mac OS X. A new PowerShell GitHub page gives people the ability to download binaries of the software, as well as access to the app's source code. PowerShell on Linux and Mac will let people who have already built proficiency with Microsoft's scripting language take those skills and bring them to new platforms. Meanwhile, people who are used to working on those platforms will have access to a new and very powerful tool for getting work done. It's part of Microsoft's ongoing moves to open up products that the company has previously kept locked to platforms that it owned. The company's open sourcing of its .NET programming frameworks in 2014 paved the way for this launch, by making the building blocks of PowerShell available on Linux and OS X. By making PowerShell available on Linux, Microsoft has taken the skills of Windows administrators who are already used to the software, and made them more marketable. It has also made it possible for hardcore Linux users to get access to an additional set of tools that they can use to manage a variety of systems.
See? Microsoft wants to take over and own all operating systems. Worming their way into Linux and Apple's OS with a 'utility' like this is just the beginning.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
fucking assholes.
From about 1995 to 2005, Microsoft absolutely dominated every aspect of computing. They tried to create an ecosystem where every device: from your PC to your smartphone/PDA to your watch was part of a single ecosystem running their software. They were very successful at it. Cracks began to show during anti-trust lawsuits and the rise of the iPhone and iPod, leading to their ultimate fall from grace.
Now, with the departure of Balmer, Microsoft has really begun to turn around and embrace other platforms and open standards, something that was anathema to them during their heyday. Apple has very much become the new Microsoft in regards to proprietary systems, taking it a step further and completely controlling the hardware side as well. But hey, at least they are better at aesthetics than Microsoft was in 2000.
It is SO "systemd". More of the binary is better bullshit.
If you need a .Net runtime for your shell, you are f*cked.
Since every object type that you'd want to build for *nix systems already exists as Perl or Ruby code, that can be accessed through C-PAN or Git, I really don't see what problem this solves. The problem of how to force a .Net runtime on every machine in existence?
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