Some things don’t go together: Cats and dogs, New York Yankee and Boston Red Sox fans, Linux and Windows… or do they? In San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said, and I quote, “Microsoft loves Linux.”
Wow.
That’s a heck of a long way from Steve Ballmer proclaiming back in 2001 that “Linux is a cancer.” In the years since then Microsoft certainly attacked Linux like it was a cancer — doing everything from sponsoring SCO’s copyright attack on Linux to claiming that Linux violated unnamed Microsoft patents to endless FUD assaults.
So, how did we get from Linux as Microsoft enemy number one to “love”?