Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has rectified his opinion on GNU / Linux, which as you know, was equal to a cancer for intellectual property. Ballmer has recitified and said that GNU / Linux is no longer a cancer but is a real enemy of Windows.
Ballmer cautions that during in recent years Linux has grown and improved considerably, something that has made it a great rival to Windows and its platform. Linux is now behind Windows and if Microsoft does nothing about it, Linux will overtake Windows. This is what Ballmer thinks and therefore, after the announcement that Microsoft made about SQL Server portability to Linux, Ballmer wrote an email to Satya Nadella, current CEO of Microsoft, to congratulate you on the correct decision.
Steve Ballmer believes that Microsoft should give more Gnu / Linux approval to take advantage of the situation and the pull that the penguin platform is having. Something that seems to indicate that Ballmer is afraid of Linux and prefers to join in than go under.
Ballmer claims Linux is a big, tough rival to Windows
Ballmer has long ceased to be the CEO of Microsoft, but we must not forget that remains one of the majority shareholders of the company and therefore he looks for the good of the company to find the good of his pocket. Even so, it is still characteristic that one of the characters who criticized Linux the most is now supporting it or at least praising it.
I personally do not share the same opinion as Ballmer. I do not think that Gnu / Linux has improved much in these years, but the power and functionality of now had it 10 years ago or even before, however more and more people have seen the benevolence of the penguin operating system and this has made more people use it and not Windows. On the other hand, Microsoft during these years, especially when Ballmer was CEO, has treated its users very badly And that has also made them opt for GNU / Linux, an operating system that does not seek to make money but to seek solutions. Surely soon we will know some more Microsoft product that reaches Gnu / Linux Do not you think?