Uh, what?!
Microsoft Loves Linux: Company Wants to Join the Linux Security Developer List
https://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-loves-linux-company-wants-to-join-the-linux-security-developer-list-526640.shtml
@fatboy it's always a bad idea to let Microsoft anywhere near security.
@wizzwizz4 @lwriemen They fixed vulnerabilities for their own OS? The most vulnerable OS known to man? :p
@wizzwizz4 @lwriemen Haha. So good! Exactly.
@fatboy @lwriemen To be fair to Microsoft, their operating system is one of the biggest pieces of bloatware imaginable, because _that's what their customers expect_, and it's rare that you hear of a world-ending vulnerability. I'm surprised they managed to keep the security holes as small as they have.
@wizzwizz4 @fatboy There's no reason to be fair to Microsoft; they haven't been fair to us.
@lwriemen @fatboy They're trying now, though. They're messing up GitHub a little, what with the trying-to-make-it-a-package-repository and all that, but they've mostly dropped the unethical business practices we all hate them for.
It's interesting that Google's allowed to lock Chrome to Android, Chromebook etc., and abuse their control of Google and YouTube to basically lock other browsers out of the web, but Microsoft got in trouble for mere bundling and integration. (Not that that's excuse.)
@wizzwizz4 @fatboy Go read the findings of fact in the Microsoft antitrust case, if you think bundling was all they did. They set computing back 30 years. They had no valid reason to buy GitHub. Its just a new path to maintain their PC monopoly. They haven't changed; just talking out of the other side of their mouth.
@lwriemen @fatboy I didn't know that there was more to the Microsoft case than them just giving their own software an unfair advantage over other people's; standard Micro$oft Evil Business Practices.
If my understanding is correct, then Google's currently doing a superset of that.