> "...Microsoft. Who we haven’t mentioned in this story, but they hated Linux more than a toddler hates naps."

A lot of FOSS people think this but it's not really true. It was a thorn in the side of MS executives as a competitor, sure, but I never met anyone in the rank and file that could be bothered to hate Linux. More than a few of my colleagues played with Linux at home in the '00s. I cut my teeth on the commercial UNIXes so there wasn't anything interesting about Linux to me until it had caught up with them around 2010 or so.

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ronsor 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

People mean Microsoft, the corporation, as a policy. Not every employee there literally.

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sunsetSamurai 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

you're trying to rewrite history here, Microsoft used to be a well known linux hater, but linux became popular and they had no choice but to accept it. Remember the "linux is cancer" years...

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ThrowawayB7 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I was there a couple decades and you weren't.

	▲	nextaccountic 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The devs weren't, but https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_ca... Microsoft messaging was very clear at the time
	▲	shimman 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Might want to schedule an appointment for a neurologist because acting like MSFT wasn't anti linux is revisionist history that borders on medical intervention.
	▲	PygmySurfer 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I was there, too, and I remember all of the FUD from MS. I remember the Halloween documents, MS funding SCO’s lawsuit, etc. MS saw Linux as a threat, especially in the server space. The goal was to stomp it out, like they did to Netscape.

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renewiltord 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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