If you don’t like Microsoft’s contributions to Linux, you can fork it and remove them. If you don’t like Microsoft’s contributions to Windows, you have to use something else.

Average TempleOS user

What’s it like having your head that far up your own asshole?

I do not get your argument still. Could you elaborate further?

Sure, if microsoft or redhat was embedding malware or proprietary software via patches, sure. But their contributions are also FOSS!

Red hat may be a contributor to the kernel but development is open source. See the difference between American mega corp with closed source software vs red hat contributing to the Linux kernel?

My network firewall blocks thousands of Microsoft tracking attempts per hour in my home network. My linux machine has zero packets blocked. How is this the same?

I guess you claim it’s the same because you don’t understand the difference, or we are talking about something else being the same, like both have desktop environments…

One is hostile against the user privacy and the other is not. They are very different. Systemd is a boot system and it’s great. It doesn’t call home.

Just use whatever distro Stallman does, you’ll be fine. If it’s good enough for him, it should be good enough for you.

And how would anyone benefit if Linux stopped accepting patches from Microsoft?

Gate’s closed, huh? Alright, I’ll come back later and make sure I ask you for permission.

I agree that Linux is the product of corporate investment and corporate priorities.

I also agree that it is “embrace and extend”. Not everybody loves the extension. The Internet is chalk full of moaning about systemd, pukseaudio, and wayland for example.

There is a lot less moaning about how great Linux gaming is now or that GNOME is pretty great now ( I don’t use it ), or that networking is super fast, or that HDR is being worked on. So, not all corporate investment is unpopular.

I guess that is why there has been so little extinguishing. Or the opposite of it. Corporate interests that invest in Linux tend to end up extinguishing their other offerings over time. Check out Microsoft in the cloud even. How much of Azure is Linux vs Windows.

Meanwhile, I can use systems that use the bits I like and replace the bits I don’t. I am loving Chimera Linux right now. No systemd in that. My main work machines use EndeavourOS which does use it but there are certainly lots of other high quality choices. Lots of other choices that are thriving ( not being extinguished ). Most of them benefit from the embracing and extending.

Microsoft has not been able to use EEE in Linux. I think they have learned there is way more money in not doing so actually.