Microsoft Says Linux Is Its Friend

Description

A two-panel Star Trek-style meme shows a woman asking, "Are you two friends?" In the lower panel, two uniformed characters are labeled "Linux" and "Microsoft" with a Tux penguin logo on the Linux character and a Microsoft four-color logo on the Microsoft character; Linux answers "No." while Microsoft answers "Yes." The humor comes from Microsoft's modern embrace of Linux through WSL, Azure, GitHub, and open-source positioning, contrasted with the Linux community's long memory of proprietary lock-in and old platform wars.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Microsoft saying it loves Linux is just `embrace` and `extend` trying very hard not to autocomplete the third argument.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Microsoft saying it loves Linux is just `embrace` and `extend` trying very hard not to autocomplete the third argument.
@pyproman 5y

Did you mean undefined?
@furqan 5y

Not sure what's wrong with microsoft but man I spent a day trying to deploy a server on azure linux and that shit didn't work and just pulled it on AWS and Heroku just to make sure I wasn't the dumb one and man it did work in a second.
1. @furqan 5y
  
  Just went to Azure cause the company I was doing that for had Azure credits, not to mention they didn't give me a Heroku service and I ended up deploying it on my Personal Plan.