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<p>Indeed, Nadella admitted that 20 percent of the operating systems
on Azure are Linux. The open-source operating system is already
contributing a lot to Microsoft's bottom line. Today, Azure
— while it doesn't support the top business Linux, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL) — already supports CoreOS Linux, CentOS,
Oracle Linux, SUSE, and Ubuntu on Azure.</p>
<p>At the same time, Microsoft is acutely aware that Azure is the
only purely proprietary cloud out here. All its competition
— Amazon Web Services, Google Compute, OpenStack, etc., etc. — all
run on Linux and offer Linux server services. Had Microsoft
insisted on the Windows way or the highway, they wouldn't stand a
chance.</p>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.zdnet.com/why-microsoft-loves-linux-7000035218/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61">http://www.zdnet.com/why-microsoft-loves-linux-7000035218/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61</a><br>
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"For so long as a hundred of us remain alive, we will yield in no
least way to English dominion. For we fight, not for glory nor
for riches nor for honour, but only and alone for Freedom, which
no good man surrenders but with his life".
The Arbroath Declaration -
Noble Scots to Pope John XXII in 1320</pre>
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