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		creshal on March 31, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ubuntu on Windows Canonical has been trying that for a long time, what with Ubuntu having a huge semi-proprietary code base not shared with any other distribution (Mir, Unity, own font rendering, Launpad/bzr for development, …).

nxzero on March 31, 2016 [–]

Obviously, Canonical isn't Microsoft, though who knows, anything is possible; maybe Google will acquire Canonical.

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