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🪟 Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable (gamesbymason.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] 9 points 7 months ago (6 children)

What standards would Microsoft EEE in this case? POSIX?

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    they might ship a proprietary lib with their os, encourage developers to use it, then license it out of being distributed

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    I imagine it’d be more like Android/iOS. Lock down bootloader so you can’t tamper with the OS, enforce notarisation requirement so that apps have to go through them. But Microsoft can’t do that, they don’t have any users vendor-locked to their application store. Valve on the other hand is in a much better position to do this.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    The whole OS and user base.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    That’s not what EEE is.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    By all means do nitpick the specific meaning of EEE, might be amusing to others.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago*

    I just don’t like people throwing around terms they don’t understand, leads to weird outcomes like people saying Meta would EEE ActivityPub back when every instance decided to defederate Threads.

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