Loved! It sure is Microsoft and Linux

Linux: Can I ask you a final question? Microsoft: Love! It's hard to imagine the days when Ballmer was in charge of Microsoft. At that time, Linux was "cancer" in Ballmer's mouth. But now everything is changing. Last October, at an event in San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella opened his mouth: Microsoft Loves Linux (the exact words: Microsoft loves Linux). In recent years, not only to Linux contribution code, but also in the Microsoft Public cloud Services Azure support Linux. According to ZDNet News, developed the best Linux version of Ubuntu company Canonical announced, with Microsoft, Amazon on the internet of things, two companies will be to Canonical's network of things networking platform Ubuntu Core open API. Snappy Ubuntu Core is a platform for smart devices that has recently been formally launched to run the same software that is stored locally or dependent on the cloud, and the most benefit of the latter is that it allows users to avoid frequent periodic upgrades. To ensure the latest security patches and firmware fixes for networked devices is the key to Canonical security. Previously, Canonical has worked with Amazon, Microsoft and Google, but mainly in the cloud services sector. And Canonical wants Linux to become a more intelligent and scalable core platform for IoT. At present, in addition to Microsoft and Amazon, Canonical also and Deutsche Telekom, MIPS and ARM processor provider Cavium, Texas Instruments and Industrial Internet Alliance, to ensure that Canonical in the telecommunications, Internet infrastructure and industrial management level have partners to support. Despite a lot of competitors, the biggest advantage of snappy Ubuntu core is its current user base. Earlier, Erle Robotics, a drone manufacturer, has launched Erle-copter, which runs on the Ubuntu core platform. In addition to being able to run Third-party applications, you can also "update" yourself through the cloud. These more than 20 years, is really not "love you heart mouth difficult to open", Microsoft and Linux is really bulletproof, from the heart to win this battle. On the top of the wave, Microsoft has made Linux the main competitor before Google's IPO. At that time, the PC was king, the Internet has not yet so profound rewrite the history of human development trajectory. But more than 20 years later, the original battleground-desktop operating system, has become a small part of the business, both sides are faced with a broader world: the Internet, mobile internet, cloud services and even things networking. Eventually, Microsoft won the PC operating system, and the Windows operating system was still running in numbersMillion PC devices, but the Linux Foundation points out, "at the moment Linux almost dominates all computing areas except desktops." "Satya Nadella in power, Microsoft, more like a" businessman ", in business, making money is the first place, the position and belief are for profit, money service. Linux is not just an adversary, it is a partner that needs to be courted. So, in addition to secretly occasionally make a little action, nothing wave the patent stick, Microsoft also often show under love. For Linux's Open source community, Microsoft's patent stick has hampered the development of the entire technology industry, odious. The most fascinating thing about this is the Windows 7 sins (Windows 7 sin) Web site. But Linux's open source community is not like Microsoft's "rich and powerful", to win in the competition will need to rely on the help of large companies. Sometimes, think carefully, the so-called "open source spirit", "fight evil", are geeks, big companies do not have these "beliefs", money, profits, the market is the first priority. The dominant companies in the competition are always trying to seal off the bigger business snowball by providing better services in a closed way; companies that do not dominate always want to talk about open source and open stories, and all companies consider maximizing business interests. Even Apple's cooler companies will "Mas", promoting Apple Pay, joining hands in the US market, wooing super-reliable teammates, and holding UnionPay in the Chinese market, taking up the high ground of policy. Back to Microsoft and Linux again, I'm curious, Satya Nadella and Microsoft have not heard such a Chinese words: Eun Love, die fast. [36 Original Krypton article, author: Small Stone]