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[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Granted. Microsoft somehow gets exclusive legal rights to Linux. Linux is now Windows with a penguin mascot.

[–] geekworking@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Been there. Done that. Xenix - aka Microsoft Unix was one of the most popular *nix for microcomputer hardware in the early 80s.

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

See this is why history rules. No matter what kind of horrors I can think up, it's probably already happened before.

[–] Froyn@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

It's your IRL "Simpsons did it" moment