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2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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hodwik ◴[30 Mar 16 17:35 UTC] No.11391217[source]▶
How in God's green earth did Canonical think helping Microsoft with this was a good idea for the Linux community?
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1. jbandela1 ◴[30 Mar 16 19:27 UTC] No.11392213[source]▶
Basically, Ubuntu steam rolls the other distributions in terms of reach. My guess, looking at previous Visual C++ posts about a gdb extension [0], and them asking about CMake projects [1], is that Visual C++ will support seamless building, and debugging of Linux programs. This then makes it super easy for developers to develop an Ubuntu binary.

Having a large number of people developing on Ubuntu, may increase the demand for Ubuntu Server (with support where the real money is). I really only see an upside for Canonical.

0. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2015/11/18/announcin...

1. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/02/29/developin...