The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers -- A Project by Canonical and Microsoft. What is your idea?
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Ballmer yells "dee-vee-loh-peurs". Now they are yelling "apps, apps, apps". Phones, tablets, handhelds, the internet of things. Of course, they are going to own it and botch it.
It's all about keeping ground, staying relevant and -- making money.
Then:
"Going to war with open source made Microsoft a ton of money."
Now:
"Embracing open source is going to make us a lot of money."
http://www.zdnet.com/article/ballmer-i-may-have-called-linux-a-cancer-but-now-i-love-it/
It's infiltrate, rate, eat. From commies to homies. Cf. China and outsourcing everything there.
MS doesn't care what operating system you run so long as you are using and paying for their tools/services.
They Embrace Libre OS's/iOS/Android because they want to get people locked into their ecosystem. Anything to make money as you said.
And this is the full video of 'Running Bash on Ubuntu on Windows'.
https://sec.ch9.ms/ch9/6c0f/773a2d20-9eb0-4dd8-869f-425785136c0f/P488_mid.mp4
As shown in this video, the presenter installs git using '# apt-get install git'
I am a member!
Does anybody know if the full ubuntu repositories are set up by default? Obviously, if this is really authentic ubuntu a person can point it to any repositories they want. However, I'm curious what the default set up is.
If it is just like ordinary ubuntu out-of-the-box, with the same DE, the same default programs installed, and so on, then a person can easily circumvent plenty of DRM. It is curious that MS is ok with that.
First thing I would do is check if all the codecs are installed by default. Next I would install all the software related to media file manipulation (converting, copying, editing, etc...)
Also, will there be some kind of EULA a user must sign to use this new 'feature' of windows?
So far it has a command line interface only. GUI apps are hardly supported. They might implement it later, who knows, but it has not been released yet, so we'll have to be patient and wait and find out.
So far there is no public plan to support X11 applications. Not only is that a bigger technical problem, I don't think they want to show too much love to the competition as it will eventually make their software look bad.
This situation really puzzles me.
So far, I accept all the points exposed here.
Now that I think about it, I've been thinking about something, but I would like to see some opinions/comments on my thoughts: If people will start using "GNU/Windows" then there's something that must be done in order for us to catch these "GNU/Windows" users so that they at least look at what we have done and notice our movement.
I'm not talking about making ruinous compromises like publishing things on Facebook (since this would make the usage of non-free JavaScript from Facebook acceptable), YouTube and so on. Instead, it seems we have to rely on news sites or periodic publications (journals, magazines and so on). One thing that must be noted is the possibility that Microsoft won't actually tell the end-user that he's using free software.
This reminds of Riot, the copyright holder of the game League of Legends, which provides XMPP accounts for the players, hosts the XMPP server, makes the XMPP client tied to the game, and doesn't even tell the user that he could connect using other XMPP client if he just wanted to chat, let alone telling the user that he could possibly add other people with XMPP address to his contacts in order to chat with them.
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