At best this move is to encourage more developers to develop on Windows.
Whether the image is bit-for-bit is irrelevant. What matters is that MS is
hosting it. How do you know MS won't use this as an opportunity to spy?
Also, if this is about making MS more successful that is a bad thing in and
of itself. History has demonstrated that MS cares only about itself and is
ruthless in how it treats the competition. Why would you want to help them?
How do you think this will help OUR cause? Because more developers have
access to GNU tools? (it is not GNU/Linux since Linux is not the kernel it is
attached to--look it up if you don't believe me) Those developers can develop
on GNU/Linux by itself, why does it need to be done from within Windows? If
it is truly bit-for-bit separate, why not just use GNU/Linux? They already
have access to these tools and it hasn't been important enough to go to
GNU/Linux to use them. Do you think these developers have no idea that this
software exists?? The only way you can 'convert' these developers to GNU is
to bring it to them to use on Windows??? That kind of proselytizing is naive
at best.
You really amaze me Magic. Unless you are just being a contrarian, it is
hard to conceive why you would take the drastic step of not using a cell
phone in the name of not being tracked, but trust MS not to track the
development done on its new platform. Do you think the mega corporations
strive to track us or not? Do you think the tracking only happens on the
private citizen level? You don't think they spy on developers if they can?
It is very simple: If you don't think MS is trustworthy, you should not trust
them to host GNU. If you do think they are at all trustworthy, you need to
review the history of MS.
