Programming Printers
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@DustinB3403 said in Programming Printers:
@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:
@DustinB3403 said in Programming Printers:
FFS. . .
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ms-linux-lindows-could-microsoft-release-a-desktop-linux/
I've been saying that that was likely for a long time.
I doubt that MS will be creating an OS using the Linux Kernel. Because they wouldn't be able to profit from it in any meaningful way.
Unless they can figure out some way of setting up a subscription plan on it.
Of course, they'd sell "support", and bundle both the OS and support into a single package like RedHat. They'd have to live with others being able to compile from source still.
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@DustinB3403 said in Programming Printers:
@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:
@DustinB3403 said in Programming Printers:
FFS. . .
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ms-linux-lindows-could-microsoft-release-a-desktop-linux/
I've been saying that that was likely for a long time.
I doubt that MS will be creating an OS using the Linux Kernel. Because they wouldn't be able to profit from it in any meaningful way.
Unless they can figure out some way of setting up a subscription plan on it.
Actually, I think that "profit" is really easy to predict that way. Windows is getting closer and closer to costing them money, rather than making them money and they know it. Every Windows desktop bug makes people have less faith in their servers and their Azure products. Windows is becoming a liability, not a profit center.
Linux solves their biggest problem - Windows debt. It's specifically because of their desire for profits that we feel that they will move to the Linux desktop.
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@travisdh1 said in Programming Printers:
@DustinB3403 said in Programming Printers:
@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:
@DustinB3403 said in Programming Printers:
FFS. . .
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ms-linux-lindows-could-microsoft-release-a-desktop-linux/
I've been saying that that was likely for a long time.
I doubt that MS will be creating an OS using the Linux Kernel. Because they wouldn't be able to profit from it in any meaningful way.
Unless they can figure out some way of setting up a subscription plan on it.
Of course, they'd sell "support", and bundle both the OS and support into a single package like RedHat. They'd have to live with others being able to compile from source still.
They don't do that with Windows, doubtful that they will do it with Linux. Support and Microsoft are like oil and water. Now THAT would prove to be a change that they are not ready to make.
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In that original thread, I never caught this before, he also said:
Most of you have never even setup a printer to print through word and mail merge so that when a letter is printed it prints the envelope, pulls from tray 1 for Company Letterhead and prints the rest from tray 2 and collates them.
This is not easy to google so let me here the steps if you can do this.
In my experience it's always the biggest idiots on the planet who make assumptions about what someone can and cannot do as a means to measure knowledge or ability. Suggesting someone has almost certainly never setup a printer scenario in such an asinine way and as though that's bragging rights of some sort is sort of like when someone told me that I [thinking I was a different person than I really was] wasn't capable playing Sweet Home Alabama on the guitar... three times, and each time more indignant. This was a case of a genuinely stupid person.
