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  Microsoft generally doesn't worry about losing market share to Linux over games. They don't even worry about losing desktop share for the public sector. Only businesses matter, and they have heavy vendor lock in there as Microsoft Office, Teams, and to a lesser extent, Azure, keep them subscribed/enslaved. Microsoft also gives a shit ton of money to the Linux Foundation,along with the rest of MMAANG and many [other companies](https://siliconangle.com/2021/10/13/linux-foundation-raises-1...

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  Ive been running Linux for close to a decade now and one thing that I've noticed is rarely brought up in Linux circles is that Linux Kernel Development is heavily funded by major big tech corpos. Examples include Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and IBM. There is a vested corporate interest in keeping Linux well maintained as it is the OS that underpins the vast majority of corporate server architecture and infrastructure. I'm not saying Linux development wouldn't exist without them, but...