Big news this week is Microsoft announcing they will use a Linux kernel (emulation architecture) in the next release of Windows. Wow.
See https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-is-getting-a-microsoft-built-linux-kernel/?fbclid=IwAR2bTfWhvM3XfoeVpaHOvgsybkBZ9dv48Ik0-h8RYqqAY0Gg7KhtonEyaVI for the news info.
Access via this big link of Google search results - https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+use+linux+kernel&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHmevf8oriAhXBe30KHVlzBRUQ_AUIDigB&biw=911&bih=365 will also turn up heaps of news and information about the announcement.
After all that FOSS/Linux has been able to achieve, and now with even Microsoft taking it on, people might appreciate the power and see more possibilities with this model of shared development.
Turns out back in 1999 - as a social work student - The Computerbank Project – is it Community Development? - A third year Community Development Social Work Essay- in conceiving the Computerbank project and using GNU/Linux/free/open source software for recycling and redistribution of donated computers - I (and others) was on the right track. If a bunch of people can create something like this (GNU/Linux) - for the common good and to share - just maybe there is still some hope for the world.
12-05-19 Update: Here is an article by PC World - How Windows and Chrome quietly made 2019 the year of Linux on the desktop by Brad Chacos
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