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As Expected, Microsoft Uses Proprietary DCOS as a Weapon Against Free Software (GNU/Linux)

"I’d be glad to help tilt lotus into into the death spiral. I could do it Friday afternoon but not Saturday. I could do it pretty much any time the following week."

--Brad Silverberg, Microsoft, now sponsor of Mesosphere/DCOS



Summary: As foreseen by Techrights, DCOS and Microsoft climb into the same bed and help dominate GNU/Linux using proprietary software

The predictions we made are becoming a reality, based on what's reported in the media right now. An IDG article says: "Designed to help enterprises build microservices-based applications, run big-data systems and operate massive production container environments, Mesosphere's Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) is "the most exciting new enterprise operating system since Linux," said Lak Ananth, managing director at Hewlett Packard Ventures, in a statement."



"The predictions we made are becoming a reality, based on what's reported in the media right now."As we noted a few months back, DCOS is about control by a central authority (see "Microsoft-connected Mesosphere Threatens to Eliminate Free Software in the Datacentre"). It is connected to (and funded by) notorious thugs from Microsoft's antitrust days, just like Xamarin before Microsoft took over [1, 2].

DCOS is proprietary, not FOSS. "In addition to forming the basis for Microsoft's Azure Container Service," says IDG, "DCOS will also soon run on Windows Server as well as Linux thanks to the collaboration between the two firms, Trifiro said. That technology is expected to enter beta later this quarter."

"It doesn't take a domain expert to foresee that. EEE in motion."Seems like a convenient mechanism by which to make GNU/Linux subservient to (or dominated by) Windows, just like in the case of Hyper-V. It doesn't take a domain expert to foresee that. EEE in motion.

“What the [user] is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS”

--Brad Silverberg, Microsoft



"b) put a kind gentle message in setup. like an incompatible tsr message, but not everytime the user starts windows. [...] the most sensible thing from a development standpoint is to continue to build dependencies on msdos into windows."

--Brad Silverberg, Microsoft

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