Then why are you saying it's going to pay any kind of emulation cost? It's not really much different to what MS do. NT has it's own sys calls that MS call in their Win32 implementation. WINE calls POSIX calls in their's.
Well done contributing anyway. I haven't, but I crawled all over the source when I developed on Windows as it was better than MSDN for the semi-documented stuff (that was only documented at all because EU forced them).
Go read the code. It's a reimplementation of core Windows DLLs. Quite a clean one. There is also a daemon that fakes a NT kernel. It's worth a read.
Yer, they need more anti monopoly stuff against them. As do Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, etc. They are have their own thiefdoms.
Cory Doctorow's latest podcast talked about this mess : https://craphound.com/news/2023/10/23/microincentives-and-enshittification/
I think many people don't feel they have an alternative. That's not the same as trust.
With browsers, they have a choice, despite MS's best efforts.
Part of their issue is their desktop and x86 legacy apps ecosystem was no use on ARM touch devices.
But more competition than 2 would have been nice. We need stuff to move back to mobile web apps instead of apps. Then it's platform independence and the sandbox is interchangable.
It's about competition, heathy market and legacy. You can't have that with formats like OOXML. Deliberately so.
I can't find the story, but I think it was of the British library, trying to recover documents in very old Microsoft Word. They had to chain together VMs of old Windows with old Word versions to get it the documents to the modern world. Formating will have been mangled of course.
That is how it is with proprietary "standards". It's like ensuring today is a digital darkage.
Exactly. When privacy is criminal, only criminals will have privacy.
It's a monoply, not a standard. It's not a standard as no one else can properly implement it. There are undocumented binary parts that were meant to be transitory to get through ISO. Which was just one of many dirty MS tricks to get it through ISO. The reference implementation is closed.
I don't expect normal people to understand formats. I expect law makers to.
The UK government got this right : https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-principles/open-standards-principles
The EU have clobbered MS before over this kind of nonsense and should again. And Google and Apple and others.
Competition needs to be possible. We need to avoid today being tomorrow's digital darkage.
Oh I found the open source Android Auto stuff for GNU/Linux. Though not use any of the GNU/Linux phones make use of it. It looks better to setup, and develop on, but I very much doubt it would make life easier. Not unless you can seamless run Android apps in a box and them not know.
Wait what? What's that? I've not seen it!
Exactly. If you don't have root, you don't "own" the device. Apps, like bank apps, that refuse to run on devices with root access, (or custom OSs) should be illegal.
Cool, well happy it was just a miss understanding, but I'm clearly not the only one who thought you were saying that. Might be worth clarifying in you earlier posts.