Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation?

Dale Scott dalescott at shaw.ca
Sun Nov 20 19:40:53 UTC 2016


> On Nov 19, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions writes:
> 
>> Conspiracy theories are stupid.
> fritter away weeks of precious mental effort trying
> to figure out how it all fit into the grand Microsoft World Domination
> Plot.

I think many people have trouble accepting that coincidence, happenstance, momentum and happy accidents determine the course of history at least as much as secret behind the scenes planning.

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> On Nov 19, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Brandon J. Wandersee <brandon.wandersee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions writes:
> 
>> Conspiracy theories are stupid.
> 
> Indeed. But this thread is just another example of how these things
> always go. Satya Nadella could burn every inch of Redmond to ashes,
> bequeath his personal fortune to HIV research and then hang himself, and
> people would still fritter away weeks of precious mental effort trying
> to figure out how it all fit into the grand Microsoft World Domination
> Plot. Eventually they'd just conclude that Nadella actually didn't
> really do any of it, but was in reality set up by the NSA in conjunction
> with Google.
> 
> The Internet is one big bullshit farm. That's about the only substantive
> thing anyone can say in discussions like this.
> 
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