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Microsoft and Canonical partner to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

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535 points raddad | 2 comments | 30 Mar 16 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.524s | source
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JustSomeNobody ◴[30 Mar 16 13:59 UTC] No.11389290[source]▶
I think eventually, we'll see Windows transform into a Linux distro with a Windows UI.

I'm not trying to wrinkle anyone's shorts, but this just makes a lot of financial sense. Let the "community" do most of the OS development and only maintain the Windows UI. This allows them to focus more on services and Azure.

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1. petra ◴[30 Mar 16 14:35 UTC] No.11389533[source]▶
Microsoft is probably going to make a lot of money from selling apps/games on win-10. Why would they lose that for and commoditize their OS and the API layer ?
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2. yazaddaruvala ◴[30 Mar 16 16:49 UTC] No.11390719[source]▶
My guess: It'll be a lot like how Android works. The kernel is OSS, but "Windows(Google) Services" requires a proprietary license.

Android's license is "you need to put the Google Play Store and the Google App ecosystem on the phone". Window's license might still be, "pay us money".

You wouldn't pay for the kernel (because of GPL) but you would pay for branding and support (like RHEL) and you would pay for the ability to run the "Windows Application Compatibility Layer".