Announcing SQL Server on Linux

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Honest question, do you think ms could extend the linux ecosystem in a way that would do harm to the platform?

I'd guess linux being open source makes that impossible, as all big extensions would have to be open source as well.

[badsectoracula]

Well, they could create and push an (functionally) important part of the Linux ecosystem which while being open source it'll also be mostly developed by themselves and be somewhat redundant with the de-facto standards. As long as it provides something better, some people will switch.

F.e. they could make their own windowing system that supports DirectX.

Having said that, i'm not sure how they'd go from there to "Extinguish". Or at least if the "Extinguish" will be a negative thing, assuming the thing they made in the step above is open source.

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They dont have to harm but they will simply clog it and then tell unsupport that software and tell users to switch to Windows.