HT-NewsEx-MSFT Employee: Microsoft Should Run Linux.
Could you imagine a Microsoft Linux?
Should Microsoft just give up the whole Windows business and switch over to a Linux codebase? A former Microsoft Research employee thinks so.
Keith Curtis believes that not even the well-received Windows 7 will stop Linux from market domination. And in keeping with the "if you can"t beat "em, then join "em" attitude, Curtis thinks that Microsoft and its customers would be better off if the company ditched Windows and made its own version of Linux.
Microsoft Linux? Strange indeed.
"I think we could all be running Microsoft Linux. I sent an e-mail to Steve Ballmer about this and he said he wasn"t interested," he quipped in a NetworkWorld story. "Microsoft could very easily dominate the Linux market if they wanted to. I don"t think they should release all their source code .. nobody would use it."
"I just look at their code bases and the world doesn"t need any of their code bases," Curtis added. "From the day I started using Linux, I no longer used one line of Microsoft code -- it"s been four years now."
Stranger things have happened in the world of the computing industry, but Microsoft abandoning Windows seems like an impossibility. Curtis points out that it wouldn"t be a costly venture for Microsoft to dabble in, as Ubuntu was started with about $10 million ò€“ just pocket change for Microsoft.