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On Fri, 23 May 2025 11:23:13 +0200, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 wrote:

> But as you know Canonical is consuming/is conscient with with M$, so it
> can change in the future.
> How ever it is very strange to me, because I think such "cooperation"
> straight lead to bankruptcy: recall Nokia mobile busines.

For Nokia, it led to the acquisition of their entire mobile business by 
Microsoft, just to head off an impending high-profile defection to 
Android.

In other words, it was a matter of saving corporate face. A very 
expensive, multi-billion-dollar way of saving corporate face, but who in 
the company is going to argue with the C-level execs?

Canonical has been cosying up to Microsoft more and more lately. And they 
could indeed end up being acquired by same at some point. The difference 
is that the Linux company could actually make a net positive contribution 
to the overall bottom line.