Elon musk should buy Microsoft

[Kweeb]

That'd be cool

[MancSoulja]

Musk is worth about 200 bil and M$ is worth like 4 Trillion lol

[Crystal Sharrd]

Origineel geplaatst door sleeps:

idk how law works but isn't linux technically already "protected" or something.

actually I'd rather ask my lawyer than base my knowledge on seemingly related things

Yep.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License

[eram]

hes too busy pretending to be the best diablo v player in the world
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/you-hate-to-see-it-elon-musk-might-be-the-best-diablo-4-player-in-the-world/
new world clear record from his ghostplayers.

[76561199540158642]

we really shouldn't allow elon to buy anything untill he pays back the 50 billion dollar loan he currently has, over extended credit for rich people is why billion dollar bankruptcy happens and 100's of millions of people have to live through recessions.

[Crystal Sharrd]

Origineel geplaatst door Golden Unicorn:

we really shouldn't allow elon to buy anything untill he pays back the 50 billion dollar loan he currently has, over extended credit for rich people is why billion dollar bankruptcy happens and 100's of millions of people have to live through recessions.

Good point.

[100% lob juice]

Origineel geplaatst door SpeedFreak1972:

If he buys Linux say bye to open-source

You can't "buy linux", it's open source software with thousands of forks. The closest you could do is buy out a corporation that invests heavily in Linux like Red Hat but even then people could just make different forks of the software.

[abcd]

Origineel geplaatst door Lob:

Origineel geplaatst door SpeedFreak1972:

If he buys Linux say bye to open-source

You can't "buy linux", it's open source software with thousands of forks. The closest you could do is buy out a corporation that invests heavily in Linux like Red Hat but even then people could just make different forks of the software.

Linus Torvald made it proprietary.

The rightsholders have neglected to exert themselves to this point.

[Tito Shivan]

Origineel geplaatst door Kweeb:

Elon musk should buy Microsoft

If he does the same seagull management he did inTwitter, we'll be all playing in linux in 5 years tops.

Origineel geplaatst door SpeedFreak1972:

If he buys Linux say bye to open-source

It'd be fun seeing him pay a bazillion dollars to the Linux Foundation, just to have the linux kernel fork into another Open Source project.

[abcd]

yes like when open office forked after apache bought it, and then got a cease and desist and sued for the rest of their code.

or like when bill gates forked dos, copywrote the fork, then claimed the original code.

[76561198278961361]

Origineel geplaatst door abcd:

yes like when open office forked after apache bought it, and then got a cease and desist and sued for the rest of their code.

or like when bill gates forked dos, copywrote the fork, then claimed the original code.

then someone else forks it

[abcd]

Origineel geplaatst door brisket <3 (she/her):

Origineel geplaatst door abcd:

yes like when open office forked after apache bought it, and then got a cease and desist and sued for the rest of their code.

or like when bill gates forked dos, copywrote the fork, then claimed the original code.

then someone else forks it

and Microsoft owns the rights to that fork, too.

[libadwaita (she/her)]

Origineel geplaatst door SpeedFreak1972:

Origineel geplaatst door Pronnu:

You base this on?

Nothing special, however it seems a pretty save bet given history I mean if he's takes over Linux he wants something out of it ....

If Elon has any brain inside his head, he wouldn't even remotely try to make the Linux kernel proprietary software even if he owned it. It would cause him a great deal of trouble.

Elon would effectively be forced to keep the Linux kernel FOSS or else it would die and some fork of Linux not owned by Elon would take it's place. He also probably would not be able to do it without fighting a lengthy legal battle over violating the GPL.

It simply wouldn't be worth it for Elon to even try.

[libadwaita (she/her)]

Origineel geplaatst door Lob:

Origineel geplaatst door SpeedFreak1972:

If he buys Linux say bye to open-source

You can't "buy linux", it's open source software with thousands of forks. The closest you could do is buy out a corporation that invests heavily in Linux like Red Hat but even then people could just make different forks of the software.

IBM already did that, and has made Red Hat and RHEL much worse since the acquisition.

[Bing Chilling]

Origineel geplaatst door xDDD:

No. It wouldn't.
Please stop.

no

[76561198278961361]

Origineel geplaatst door abcd:

Origineel geplaatst door brisket <3 (she/her):

then someone else forks it

and Microsoft owns the rights to that fork, too.

no problem, just make another fork!