On: Could Microsoft release a desktop Linux?

[pjmlp]

I was talking about software sales and apparently those hardware sales weren't enough to keep Sun in business.

[monocasa → pjmlp]

> It was a free download for decades before being open sourced.

And it was always the support contracts even more than the hardware sales that kept them going. Starting to nickel and dime for software licenses too wasn't an option on the table for them.